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 CEZANNESometimes 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 CEZANNEWhat 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 CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen 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