Cezanne Quote by Henri Matisse Download Open image “Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.” — Henri Matisse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cezanne God Inspirational Masters Painting
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system. — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with… — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already done what… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso. — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
