Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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