black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Paul Cezanne

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNE

Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE
If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNE

Lost Myself One Liner Think
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Harmony Nature Parallel
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Emotion Work
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNE

Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes God Myself
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE

Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE

Eyes Feature Mindset Paint Support
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNE

Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNE

Company Goodness
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNE
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNE

Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNE

Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Paul Cezanne Quotes