Cezanne Quote by Walter Sickert

“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

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

— Clive Bell

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

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

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

“He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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