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
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture....
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
There is no model, there is only color.
I want to die painting.
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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.
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.
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin...
The contour eludes me.