Paul Cezanne Mean Quotations

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.