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
The artist must be a creator.
I am a man of the mountains.
The artist must be a master.
I am a man of the south.
The artist must be a genius.
I am a man of the light.
I am a man of the truth.
The artist must be a seeker.
I am a man of the spirit.
I will astonish Paris with an apple.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
I am a primitive. I see with my eyes, not with my intelligence.
One must see one's model clearly and experience it. One must not be a slave to one's model.
I seek in painting the means of making a statement.
Genius is childhood recaptured.
Right now my great desire is to learn to paint.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed toward a central point.