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
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
I wish to die painting.
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.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
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.
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.