I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNETreat 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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