Paul Cezanne in quotes, the famous artist on painting & life; free resource in French art history

Paul Cezanne in his quotes - the famous artist on his painting art & life in France, in and aside of the Impressionists - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Paul Cezanne was a French famous painter who was creating his art at first in, but later aside of the Impressionist artists in France. He learned a lot about landscape painting during his many plein-air trips, together with his older painter-mate Pissarro - the most distinct Impressionist in France, in those days! After some years Cezanne went his own way in painting, as his quotes describe very clearly. Moreover they reveal his very intimate relation to Nature.

Cezanne painted a lot in open air - mainly around Aix de Provence in France, and very often the mountain ‘Mont St. Victoire’ was his motif (see image, right). Later in his artistic life he rejected firmly the broken-colors of Impressionism, because for Cezanne ‘Form’ became most important in painting art to focus on. That’s the reason why Cezanne had such a strong impact on the starting young Cubist painters circa 1906, Picasso and Braque.
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Some selected quotes of the famous French artist Paul Cezanne - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’I’ve started two little motifs of the sea… …(one became his painting ‘The Sea at L’Estaque’)… It’s like a playing card. Red roofs against the blue sea. If the weather turns favorable perhaps I’ll be able to finish them off.’ - quote of Cezanne, in his letter to his ‘art teacher’ Pissarro, July 1876

• ’You wretch! (Cezanne is portraying his art-dealer Vollard who moved his legs) You’ve spoiled the pose. Do I have to tell you again you must sit like an apple? Does an apple move?’ - quote of Cezanne, c. 1897; recorded by Vollard in his biography ‘Cezanne’

• ’Allow me to repeat what I said when you were here (in Aix de Provence, France): deal with nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all placed in perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.’ - quote from Cezanne’s letter to Émile Bernard, April 1904
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous French artist Paul Cezanne:

  • extended biographical notes of Cezanne, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Cezanne, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne
  • many images of his painting art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Ceza
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]