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.
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 have sworn to die painting.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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.
I want to die painting.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture....
Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin...