Paul Cezanne Quotes

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.

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

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

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

Anyone could buy a green Jaguar, find beauty in a Japanese screen two thousand years old. I would rather be a connoisseur of neglected rivers and flowering mustard and the flush of iridescent pink on an intersection pigeon's charcoal neck. I thought of the vet, warming dinner over a can, and the old woman feeding her pigeons in the intersection behind the Kentucky Fried Chicken. And what about the ladybug man, the blue of his eyes over gray threaded black? There were me and Yvonne, Niki and Paul Trout, maybe even Sergei or Susan D. Valeris, why not? What were any of us but a handful of weeds. Who was to say what our value was? What was the value of four Vietnam vets playing poker every afternoon in front of the Spanish market on Glendale Boulevard, making their moves with a greasy deck missing a queen and a five? Maybe the world depended on them, maybe they were the Fates, or the Graces. Cezanne would have drawn them in charcoal. Van Gogh would have painted himself among them.

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he’s alive forever, this instant, and may be.

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

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