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
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
The contour eludes me.
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
All the theories mess you up inside.
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.