All the theories mess you up inside.
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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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 am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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