All Paul Cezanne Quotes
- It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive. Alive
- When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. Achieve
- There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. Alone
- There is no model, there is only color. Color
- It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling. Airy
- What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of… Entwined
- If I think, I am lost. Inspirational
- I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. Art
- All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… Able
- Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing… Achieve
- Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When… Art
- Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… Accuracy
- The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so… All
- Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. Moment
- An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique -… All
- I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Age
- One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. Awareness
- To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. Among
- Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their… All
- The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. Consciousness
- If I think, everything is lost. Inspirational
- We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. Beautiful
- You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. Agree
- You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well. Eye
- It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.... Find