Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézannewas a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth19 January 1839
CityAix-en-Provence, France
CountryFrance
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Nature 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.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
There is no model, there is only color.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.