Paul Cézanne > Quotes

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
― Paul Cezanne

“«Celui qui n'a pas le goût de l'absolu se contente d'une médiocrité tranquille»”
― Paul Cézanne

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature”
― Paul Cezanne, Cezanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire

“I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me. ”
― Paul Cezanne

“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
― Paul Cezanne

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
― Paul Cézanne

“If I think, everything is lost.”
― Paul Cézanne

“If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.”
― Paul Cezanne

“The world doesn't understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I've withdrawn from it.”
― Paul Cézanne

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
― Paul Cézanne

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed,
will set off a revolution.”
― Paul Cezanne, Paul Cezanne, Letters

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed,
will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne”
― Paul Cézanne, Paul Cezanne, Letters

“The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an
object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective
consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness.”
― Paul Cézanne

“The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness.”
― Paul Cézanne

“A minute in the world's life passes! [...] To become that minute, to be the sensitive plate... give the image of what we see, forgetting everything that has appeared before our time.”
― Paul Cézanne

“This sunshine... The chance fashion in which its rays fall, the way it moves, infiltrates things, becomes part of the earth's fabric -- who will ever paint that? Who will ever tell that story? The physical history of the earth, its psychology.”
― Paul Cézanne

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
― Paul Cézanne

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art”
― Paul Cézanne

“I paint as I see, as I feel...They also feel and see like me, but they don't dare...I dare.”
― Paul Cézanne

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
― Paul Cézanne

“როდესაც ფიქრს ვიწყებ, ყველაფერი იკარგება”
― Paul Cézanne

“in der primordialen wahrnehmung gibt es keinerlei unterschied zwischen tast- und gesichtssinn. erst die wissenschaft vom menschlichen körper bringt uns bei, zwischen unseren sinnen zu unterscheiden”
― Paul Cézanne

“« L’eau changée en vin, le monde changé en peinture. »”
― Paul Cézanne

“ჩემს ყოველ ნახატში ჩემი სისხლის წვეთია, რომელიც შერეულია თქვენი მამის სისხლის წვეთთან, წარმოიქმნება უჩვეულო კავშირი, რომელზეც თქვენ ვერც კი ხვდებით, იგი აერთიანებს ჩემს თვალებს თქვენს სულთან, თავიდან გქმნით, რომ შეიცნოთ საკუთარი თავი... ყველა ჩვენთაგანი უნდა მივიდეთ ჰარმონიასთან - ჩემი ნახატი, ჩემი კონსტრუქცია, ჩემი საღებავები და თვითონაც, - რომ ერთად განვიცადოთ ეს მგრძნობიარე წუთები”
― Paul Cézanne

“« L’eau changée en vin, le monde changée en peinture. »”
― Paul Cézanne

“eine hand gehört nicht nur zum körper, sie ist ausdruck und fortsetzung eines gedankens, den man erfassen und wiedergeben muß. [...] und hier findet der wahre kampf statt. viele maler sind dabei nur aus instinkt erfolgreich, ohne je dieses eigentliche thema der kunst erkannt zu haben. ihr zeichnet eine frau, aber ihr seht sie nicht.”
― Paul Cézanne

“The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.”
― Paul Cézanne

“the others see and feel like me, but they do not dare. me, i dare. i have the courage of my convictions.”
― Paul Cézanne

“das was existierte, zum ausdruck zu bringen, ist eine unendliche aufgabe”
― Paul Cézanne

“ich verlange, daß der maler es interpretiert, der maler ist kein idiot.”
― Paul Cézanne