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Type: Artist Quotes Category: French Artist Quotes Date of Birth: January 19, 1839 Date of Death: October 22, 1906 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Paul Cezanne Related Authors: Henri Matisse Robert Delaunay Francis Picabia Paul Gauguin Camille Pissarro Edouard Manet Marc Chagall |
A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. Paul Cezanne A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. Paul Cezanne Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. 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 For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. Paul Cezanne I allow no one to touch me. Paul Cezanne I am a pupil of Pissarro. Paul Cezanne I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Paul Cezanne I am the primitive of the method I have invented. Paul Cezanne I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. 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 I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne I have sworn to die painting. Paul Cezanne I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. Paul Cezanne I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. Paul Cezanne I paint as if I were Rothschild. Paul Cezanne I want to die painting. Paul Cezanne I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. Paul Cezanne I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. Paul Cezanne If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Paul Cezanne Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? Paul Cezanne Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? Paul Cezanne It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. Paul Cezanne It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. Paul Cezanne My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. Paul Cezanne My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Paul Cezanne One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. Paul Cezanne Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Paul Cezanne Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. Paul Cezanne People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. Paul Cezanne Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. Paul Cezanne Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. Paul Cezanne The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. Paul Cezanne The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. Paul Cezanne The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Paul Cezanne The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. Paul Cezanne The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. Paul Cezanne The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. Paul Cezanne There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Paul Cezanne Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted. Paul Cezanne We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. Paul Cezanne When 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 Cezanne With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. Paul Cezanne With an apple I will astonish Paris. 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 |
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