Quote

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

Paul Cezanne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
Artist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
Aix
Cézanne
Cezanne
Pol Sezan
Polʹ Sezann
Paul Cezanne
P. Sezanas
Sai-shang
cezanne paul
p. cezanne
Choices
Combination
Workmanlike
Artist
Technique
Comprises
Art
Material
Fictitious
Made
Materials
Handling
Like
Choice
Accuracy
Effects
Depend
Depends
Tone
Painting
Entirely

More quotes by Paul Cezanne

Image
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Paul Cezanne
Image
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Paul Cezanne
Image
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
Paul Cezanne
Image
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.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
Image
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne
Image
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Paul Cezanne
Image
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too
Paul Cezanne
Image
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
Paul Cezanne
Image
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Paul Cezanne
Image
If I think, everything is lost.
Paul Cezanne
Image
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.
Paul Cezanne
Image
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
Paul Cezanne
Image
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
Paul Cezanne