I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNENature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNE