If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
-
-
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE -
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE -
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNE -
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNE -
I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNE -
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNE -
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNE -
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNE