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
I wish to die painting.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
I have sworn to die painting.
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.