I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEWhoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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 CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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 CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNESee 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 CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNE