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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.