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.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
-
-
Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNE -
If I think, everything is lost.
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 -
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 -
It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNE -
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE -
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE -
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE -
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.
PAUL CEZANNE -
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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 -
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNE -
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNE -
There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE -
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNE -
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNE -
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 -
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNE