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.
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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I want to die painting.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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