Author Profile
Paul Cezanne
1839 – 1906 • French • Artist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 56 quotesIs it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?— Paul Cezanne
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.— Paul Cezanne
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.— Paul Cezanne
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.— Paul Cezanne
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.— Paul Cezanne
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.— Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.— Paul Cezanne
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.— Paul Cezanne