Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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