Paul Cezanne Quotes

I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

Through art, you create your own world.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.