Cezanne Quote by Charles Tomlinson

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

— Henri Matisse

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they…

— Henry Moore

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of…

— Jerry Saltz

“You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators.…

— Zbigniew Herbert

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn

The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and…

— Clement Greenberg

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through…

— Ed Askew

Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to…

— Mary Cassatt

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works.…

— Semir Zeki

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who…

— Alice Neel