Paul Cezanne Quotes

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

The substance of painting is light.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Light is architectural. It is sculptural.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Is not light grander than fire?

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

The darkness declares the glory of light.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Sometimes it is easier to see the light when you stand partly in the darkness.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.