Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I want to die painting.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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