It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
-
-
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE -
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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 -
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 CEZANNE -
I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE -
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE -
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNE -
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNE -
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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 -
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNE -
There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNE