Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 6

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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.

I wish to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

I have sworn to die painting.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

I allow no one to touch me.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

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.

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

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.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.