“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.” BornGenerationsMinesPainter 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
“The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.” GivingInterestVisionOriginalsPainterOriginalityRepresentation Author:Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” ArtArtistEmotionCreativityPainterWorks Of ArtGreat ArtGreat ArtistFine ArtsBeing An ArtistArt WorldArt HistoryFamous ArtistCreative ArtistsArt And ArtistsArt And CreativityInspirational ArtistArtists And CreativityInspirational ArtBeautiful ArtHistory And Art Author:Paul Cezanne
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.” ShouldMindTwoEyeArtistAidsPainterTwo Things Author:Paul Cezanne
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.” ArtistOughtThousandPainterInches Author:Paul Cezanne
“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.” ArtistPaintingPainter Author:Paul Cezanne
“With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.” MeanArtistExpressionNeededWidePainterSufficientTemperament Author:Paul Cezanne
“There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.” ShouldArtBrainColorLogicPainterConform 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
