Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne More Quotes by Paul Cezanne More Quotes From Paul Cezanne I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. Paul Cezanne conclusion helping-others helping All the theories mess you up inside. Paul Cezanne mess theory Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest. Paul Cezanne color two mean Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them. Paul Cezanne light eye thinking I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne portraiture shirts fronts A puny body weakens the soul. Paul Cezanne body soul Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. Paul Cezanne optics study artist Pleasure must be found in study. Paul Cezanne pleasure study found The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. Paul Cezanne nature real book When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! Paul Cezanne burning fire See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere. Paul Cezanne cones cylinders spheres If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Paul Cezanne block strong artist One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression. Paul Cezanne submissive expression mean An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter. Paul Cezanne light sight doe Chatter about art is almost always useless. Paul Cezanne art-is useless art My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Paul Cezanne nervous oil artist I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. Paul Cezanne incessant progress form Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. Paul Cezanne express-yourself expression heart In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. Paul Cezanne nature eye order The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. Paul Cezanne experience strong art
