• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Paul Cezanne Quotes

• 

  You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  EnoughEyesNeedThinkingYourself
• 

  There is no model, there is only color.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  ColorModel
• 

  Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

  PAUL CEZANNE
• 

  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.

  PAUL CEZANNE
• 

  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
  DifferentModestyOneselfStrengthTime
• 

  The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  ChaosHumanLiveMyselfPhotographThinking
• 

  Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

  PAUL CEZANNE
• 

  For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  ImpressionNaturePaintRealizationSensationSubject
• 

  If I think, everything is lost.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  LostMyselfOne LinerThink
• 

  A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  ArtBeginningEmotionWork
• 

  When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  ArtFlowerGodJudgmentMyselfObjectPaintingTree
• 

  When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  AchievementColorFormFullRich
• 

  Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  EmotionEssentialExperienceExpressionKnowledge
• 

  See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  LightLoveMiseryOneselfSide
• 

  Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  IllusionMadMyselfThinking
• 

  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.

  PAUL CEZANNE
  DiscoverMyselfNatureRepresentationReproductionSatisfactionSun