Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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 day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I want to die painting.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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