Paul CezanneThinkers

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art is a personal apperception, which I embody in sensations and which I ask the understanding to organize into a painting.

Art is necessarily based on feeling. Craft, objective, technique are all are in the middle where feeling is the beginning and the end.

Art is separate from though. If one thinks, everything is lost.

Art is not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too.

Art is making things concrete and giving them individuality.

Art is reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Art is not subordinate to nature, rather it is a harmony parallel with nature.

Art is able to give us a taste of nature's eternity only by rendering the thrill of her permanence along with the appearance of all her changes.

Art is about feeling. An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Color is a stand-in for light in painting because light cannot be reproduced.

Color has its own logic, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Color is a thing which, when it achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Color is living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate.