To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
- Paul Cezanne
More Quotes By Paul Cezanne
- Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
- Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
- Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of...
- May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the...
- The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
- Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
- Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
- The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with...
- People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
- The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
- Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
- Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
- The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
- A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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