There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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 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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I want to die painting.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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