With an apple I will astonish Paris.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Art, Artists, Arts
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.
—Paul Cezanne
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Isolation
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Awareness, Strength, One liners
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
—Paul Cezanne
Right now a moment 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.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Opportunity, Present
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Harmony
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.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Art
When they are done right, harmony appears by itself. The more numerous and varied they are, the more the effect is obtained and agreeable to the eye.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: Harmony
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
—Paul Cezanne
Topics: One liners, Art
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