Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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