Paul Cezanne Quotes

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.