Paul Cézanne citáty
Paul Cézanne
Datum narození: 19. leden 1839
Datum úmrtí: 22. říjen 1906
Paul Cézanne byl francouzský malíř, významný představitel impresionismu. Je známý jako otec moderního umění.
Citáty Paul Cézanne
„Malovat podle přírody znamená vyloupnout charakter svého modelu.“
Zdroj: Míčko, Miroslav, Paul Cézanne, Odeon, Praha 1970, s. 55
„Když hodnotím umění, vezmu svůj obraz a postavím ho vedle zpředmětněného Boha, jako je strom nebo květina. Tluče-li se, není to umění.“
Zdroj: Cézanne, Euromedia Group, k. s. – Knižní klub, Praha 2013, s. 3, ISBN 978-80-242-3825-8
„… ví se někdy v umění, kdo je blázen?“
Varianta: Ví se někdy v umění, kdo je blázen?
„Realismus je moje metoda, můj zákoník… Ale realismus, rozumějte mi správně, plný vznešenosti, bezděčný. Heroismus skutečna.“
Zdroj: [Gabriel, Jan, Paul Cézanne: Zemřel, jak si přál, se štětcem v ruce, ihned.cz, 2006-03-06, 2015-10-06, http://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-17967170-paul-cezanne-zemrel-jak-si-pral-se-stetcem-v-ruce]
„Jsem jen ubohý malíř a štětec je výrazovým prostředkem, který nebe vložilo do mých rukou. Vytváření a rozvíjení teoretických názorů není mým úkolem.“
Zdroj: Paul Cézanne. Největší malíři: Život, inspirace a dílo, č. 7, Eaglemoss International, 2000, s. 20, ISSN 1212-8872
„That is why, perhaps, all of us derive Pissarro. He had the good luck to be born in the West Indies, where he learned how to draw without a teacher. He told me all about it. In 1865 he was already cutting out black, bitumen, raw sienna and the ocher's. That's a fact. Never paint with anything but the three primary colours and their derivatives, he used to say me. Yes, he was the first Impressionist.“
Camille Pissarro was Cézanne's 'teacher' in impressionistic landscape painting; they frequently painted together in open air.
Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, p. 164, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif'
„Degas isn't enough of a painter; he doesn't have enough of that! With a little bit of temperament one can manage to be a painter, It's enough to have a sense of art, and that sense is no doubt what the bourgeoisie fear most... For a painter, sensation is at the bottom of everything. I will go on repeating it forever. Procedures are not what I advocate.“
Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, pp. 184-185 in: 'What he told me – II. The Louvre'
„That's my great ambition. To be sure! Every time I attack a canvas I feel convinced, I believe that something's going to come of it... But I immediately remember that I've always failed before. Then I taste blood... I never know where I am going or where I want to go with this damned profession. All the theories mess you up inside.“
Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, p. 206 in: 'What he told me – III. The Studio'
„Here you are, put this somewhere, on your work table. You must always have this before your eyes... It's a new order of painting. Our Renaissance starts here... There's a pictorial truth in things. This rose and this white lead us to it by a path hitherto unknown to our sensibility..“
Cezanne is referring in this quote to a photo of the painting 'Olypmpia', painted by Manet
Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, p. 71, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life'
„Painting certainly means more to me than everything else in the world. I think my mind becomes clearer when I am in the presence of nature. Unfortunately, the realization of my sensations is always a very painful process with me. I can't seem to express the intensity which beats in upon my senses. I haven't at my command the magnificent richness of color which enlivens Nature... Look at that cloud; I should like to be able to paint that! Monet could. He had muscle.“
Quote in a conversation with Vollard, along the river near Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s
„If I dared, I should say that your [ Camille Pissarro ] letter is imprinted with sadness. The picture business isn't going well; I fear that your morale may be colored a little grey, but I'm sure that it's only a passing phase… I imagine that you would be delighted with the country where I am now…. in ', who had talked to me about it. It's like a playing card. Red roofs against the blue sea. If the weather turns favorable perhaps I'll be able to finish them off.“
Quote from Cezanne's letter to Camille Pissarro, from L'Estaque 2 July 1876, taken from Alex Danchev, The Letters of Paul Cézanne, 2013; as quoted in the 'Daily Beast' online, 13 Oct. 2013 https://www.thedailybeast.com/cezannes-letter-to-pissarro-picture-business-isnt-going-well
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1860s - 1870s
„.. The Night-watch (large and famous painting of Dutch 17th century painter Rembrandt.... the grandiose - I don't say it in bad part - grows tiresome after a while. There are mountains like that; when you stand before them you shout Nom de Dieu, but for every day a simple little hill does well enough. Listen Monsieur Vollard, if the 'Raft of the Medusa' of Théodore Géricault hung in my bedroom, it would make me sick.“
Quote from a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s
„Anyone who wants to paint should read Bacon. He defined the artists as homo additus naturae... Bacon had the right idea, but listen Monsieur Vollard, speaking of nature, the English philosopher, [Bacon] didn't for-see our open-air school, nor that other calamity which has followed close upon its heels: open-air indoors.“
Quote in a conversation with Vollard in museum The Luxembourg, Paris 1897 - standing before the 'Olympia' of Manet; as quoted in Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 36
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s
„To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.“
Quote of 1906 from a letter; cited in Paul Cézanne, Letters ed. John Rewald, New York, Da Capro Press, 1995, p. 313
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900
„Until the war [between France and Germany] as you know, my life was a mess. I wasted it. It was only at l'Estaque, when (1870-1871) I thought things over, that I really understood Pissarro, a painter like myself... He was a determined man. I was overcome by a passion for work. It wasn't that I hadn't been working before, I was always working. But what I always missed, you know, was a comrade like you..“
Zdroj: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, p. 208 in: 'What he told me – III. The Studio'
