Paul Cezanne Quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

My painting does not come from the easel.

I always start a painting with the sky.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I like to make collages - paper collages.

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.