Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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 CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEGet to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEArt is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNE