Paul Cézanne
A Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Quotes by Paul Cézanne
I want to make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of the museums.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in proper perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
Art is a harmony parallel to nature.
The artist must see with his own eyes, he must be himself.
One does not paint with logic, but with feeling.
The sun, for example, cannot be reproduced, but it must be represented by something else, by color.
I am the primitive of the way I have discovered.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among a great number of relations.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
I have not realized my sensation.
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
The world is not a spectacle, it is a mystery.
I am too old to change my habits.
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex ways.
The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
I have never made a pact with the devil.
One must study nature and paint from it.
I am seeking to realize my sensations.