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 paint what I see, and what I feel.
Nature is the teacher, and the artist is the pupil.
My aim is to render the highest and most exact truth.
The eye must see, the hand must execute.
I am old, but I am still learning.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
The future is in the air, and I must paint it.
One paints a landscape not to reproduce it, but to express oneself.
I seek the essential truth of things.
The brush should enter into the heart of the matter.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, passionately.'
The model is nothing, the sensation is everything.
In art, nothing is accidental.
I am the primitive of the way I have invented.
To paint is to conquer the sun.
My heart is in my work.
The true means of being natural is to be artificial.
I have no fear of change.