Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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