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
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
I have sworn to die painting.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.