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
Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
Nature is the best instructor.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
The contour eludes me.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
Pleasure must be found in study.
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.