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
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
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.
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.