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.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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