Paul Cezanne Quotes

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

Artists need to express.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I will preach with my brush.