Cezanne Paintings Quotes & Sayings

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. — Harold S. Kushner

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings ... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar ... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage. — Christopher Willard

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. — Willem De Kooning

What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images. — Ian Hornak

DSM-5 is not 'the bible of psychiatry' but a practical manual for everyday work. Psychiatric diagnosis is primarily a way of communicating. That function is essential but pragmatic - categories of illness can be useful without necessarily being 'true.' The DSM system is a rough-and-ready classification that brings some degree of order to chaos. It describes categories of disorder that are poorly understood and that will be replaced with time. Moreover, current diagnoses are syndromes that mask the presence of true diseases. They are symptomatic variants of broader processes or arbitrary cut-off points on a continuum. — Joel Paris

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. — Dennis Prager

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself. — Robert Hughes

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. — Paul Cezanne

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning. — E.B. White

The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be. — Wendell Berry

Art is a harmony parallel with nature — Paul Cezanne

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow. — George V

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton

the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak — Georges Bataille