Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézannewas a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth19 January 1839
CityAix-en-Provence, France
CountryFrance
All the theories mess you up inside.
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
Pleasure must be found in study.
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
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.
I have sworn to die painting.
I allow no one to touch me.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.