What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne More Quotes by Paul Cezanne More Quotes From Paul Cezanne Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. Paul Cezanne lightartisttwo It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture. Paul Cezanne sculpturepaintingyears It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too Paul Cezanne learningeducationinspirational Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left. Paul Cezanne riversgivingthinking Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Paul Cezanne copyingpaintingart Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye! Paul Cezanne moneteye The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. Paul Cezanne individualityartistgiving All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside. Paul Cezanne things-donestudiosdone Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen. Paul Cezanne fadingportraitsrain See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them. Paul Cezanne apricotspeacheslight When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also. Paul Cezanne achieveformcolor Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand. Paul Cezanne reflectionsightinspirational Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Paul Cezanne spheresperspectivesides All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work. Paul Cezanne wishmenart Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest. Paul Cezanne designcolorart Nature is the best instructor. Paul Cezanne instructorseducation I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you. Paul Cezanne paintingtruth When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. Paul Cezanne flowerjudgingart If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul. Paul Cezanne veilssoulart Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas? Paul Cezanne juicetraditionschool
