Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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