“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.” LightColor Author:Paul Cezanne
“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
“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.” LightSidesPeachesPulpApricots 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
“Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.” ThinkingFirstsArtLightEyeVisionMaterialsArt IsAwe Author:Paul Cezanne
“It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.” FeelingsLightColorAmountSufficientIntroducingVibrationsAiry Author:Paul Cezanne
“There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.” LightDarkPaintingRelationTone 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
