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.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
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.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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.