“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.” WayTryingFormSpacePleasurePaintingShapesOrganizationPaintWork OutRhythmLandscapeVisualsRealisticComposingGreatest PleasuresFugueSonatasCezanne Author:Ian Hornak
“The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.” EffortGreaterPaintingEvolutionAppearanceVisualsParadoxAbstractionFidelityVergeCezanne Author:Clement Greenberg
“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.” InformationPaintingSubtleGet AwayLoadedVisceralCezanne Author:Wolf Kahn
“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.” ShouldArtHardWholeFormForceMistakeTakenFourCenturyObjectsPaintingPerspectiveTraditionCreditDisappearRenaissanceImposingBeholderGhastlyRedressCezanne Author:Georges Braque
“One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.” Has BeensWholeStagePaintingMethodPaintStrokesFinishingUnfinishedCezanneCompleted Work Author:Christopher Willard
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.” IfsIdeasAgeDoubtCenturyPaintingKeysStructureOld AgeHeroicLockedModernityTouchstonesCezanne Book:The Shock of the New Source: The Shock of the New
“The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.” ThinkingKnowsMayStillsEnoughPracticeForeverAlivePaintingSingingMereHillsInstantWornLive ForeverWrensCezanne Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems