Talk:Paul Cézanne

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 * All tones inter-penetrate, all forms revolvingly interlock. This is coherence.


 * Art must make nature eternal in our imagination.


 * I try to render perspective through colour alone.


 * I want to make Impressionism something solid and durable.


 * Impressionism, what does it mean? It is the optical mixing of colours.. ..which are broken down on the canvas and reassembled by the eye.


 * Light is not a thing that can be reproduced, but something that must be depicted using something else.. ..colours.


 * My canvas "joins hands", it holds firm.


 * Nature is not on the surface, it is in the depths. Colours are an expression of these depths on the surface. They rise from the roots of the world.


 * Perhaps I came too early. I am the primitive of a new art.


 * The means of expressing emotion is only to be acquired through very long experience.


 * We must not paint what we think we see, but what we see.


 * When colour has its greatest richness, then form has its plenitude.


 * The eye absorbs.. ..the brain produces form.

Quote from Wikipedia
"I don't understand the world and the world doesn't understand me, so I withdrew from the world," said old Cézanne to his coachman. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 19:43, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Quote about Cezanne that needs year

 * Hello, Cézanne!" Dear old grandfather! A master worker. The best acorn of the French forests. His painting was certified by the village notary on an oaken table. Cézanne is as permanent as a testament left by a man of sound mind and firm memory. I was enchanted by the old man's style of life. Roses which must have been cut in the morning-firm and tightly rolled, extraordinary young tea roses. Exactly like little scoops of rich vanilla ice cream.
 * Osip Mandelstam JOURNEY TO ARMENIA translated into English in The complete critical prose (1997)