Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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