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
Paul Cezanne quotes about
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.