“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
“I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.” StillsExpressionBirthConfusedSensations Author:Paul Cezanne
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.” ArtArtistRealizingCreativitySubjectsPhotographyPaintSensationsImpressionismImpressionists Author:Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.” ArtRealizingObjectsPaintingSensesSensationsCopying Author:Paul Cezanne
“What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.” TryingSourceRootsMysteriousSensationsTranslateSerendipityEntwined Author:Paul Cezanne
