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
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
All the theories mess you up inside.
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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.
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.