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.
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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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 have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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