Paul Cezanne Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Paul Cezanne:

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Paul Cezanne

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

Paul Cezanne

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Paul Cezanne

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.

Paul Cezanne

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cezanne

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Paul Cezanne

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting.

Paul Cezanne

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Paul Cezanne

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Paul Cezanne

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Paul Cezanne

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Paul Cezanne

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Paul Cezanne

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Paul Cezanne

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

Paul Cezanne

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Paul Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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 could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne