“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.” ThinkingGivingLittlesDifferentLeftInterestStudySubjectsMonthsHighestRiversEdgesAngleBendingMotifsPlentifulDifferent Angles Author:Paul Cezanne
“The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.” GivingInterestVisionOriginalsPainterOriginalityRepresentation 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
“Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.” WayGivingBookDonePaintingRevolutionBirthOriginalsBunchBreadEverlastingJuiceTobaccoCarrots Author:Paul Cezanne
“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.” GivingArtistIndividualityIndividualismConcrete Author:Paul Cezanne
“You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.” GivingIdeasYouthAgreeSpotsNo Idea Author:Paul Cezanne
“Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.” GivingArtLastsFallTasteElementsEternityAppearanceThrillFalling ApartPermanence Author:Paul Cezanne
“Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.” InspirationalGivingLongBeautifulSunColorBeautiful Colors Author: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.” GivingMindHas BeensMomentsRealityForgetRight NowPaintSensitiveOur TimeThat MomentCapturePlatesFleeting Author:Paul Cezanne
“May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.” MenNeedsGivingFeelsMayMeanArtLightSidesLinesAirObjectsPerspectiveAmountTreatsDepthSurfacePlanesSufficientRepeatsHorizonSpheresIntroducingParallelsVibrationsBreadthConesCylinders 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
