Pure drawing is an abstraction. Paul Cezanne More Quotes by Paul Cezanne More Quotes From Paul Cezanne Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time. Paul Cezanne mindgivingreality I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. Paul Cezanne conclusionhelping-othershelping All the theories mess you up inside. Paul Cezanne messtheory 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 colortwomean 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 lighteyethinking I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. Paul Cezanne portraitureshirtsfronts A puny body weakens the soul. Paul Cezanne bodysoul Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. Paul Cezanne opticsstudyartist Pleasure must be found in study. Paul Cezanne pleasurestudyfound 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 naturerealbook When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! Paul Cezanne burningfire See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere. Paul Cezanne conescylindersspheres If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Paul Cezanne blockstrongartist 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 submissiveexpressionmean 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 lightsightdoe Chatter about art is almost always useless. Paul Cezanne art-isuselessart My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Paul Cezanne nervousoilartist I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. Paul Cezanne incessantprogressform Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. Paul Cezanne express-yourselfexpressionheart In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. Paul Cezanne natureeyeorder
