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
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
I have sworn to die painting.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?