Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEI wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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