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
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
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.
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 lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.