“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.” DoeLightHalfSightSurfaceImpressionPainterToneColourSensationsOrgans Author:Paul Cezanne
“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.” GivingMeanLiteraturePaintingShapesPerceptionDrawingColourSensationsConcreteAbstraction Author:Paul Cezanne
“Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.” WorldExpressionRootsDepthSurfaceColour Author:Paul Cezanne
“Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.” TwoLightArtistShadowRelationBrilliantToneColourBrilliant IdeasLight And Shadow Author:Paul Cezanne
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.” PureDrawingColourAbstraction Author:Paul Cezanne
“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.” ThinkingGivingShouldStatesLightEyeLostWaitingSecretGraceColorGloryRootsPainterColourAbyssTangled Author:Paul Cezanne
