To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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