It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNETreat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE