Bouquets Quote by Robert Motherwell

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

— Wolf Kahn

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

— Henri Matisse

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

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

“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

One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

— Edward Hopper

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

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

— Pierre Bonnard

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

— Bryce Dessner

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

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