Paul Cezanne Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Artist, Two

• Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Monet

  Quoted in Douglas Cooper, Claude Monet: An Exhibition of Paintings (1957)

• Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eye, Thinking

• To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Progress, Achieve

• You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Needs

• Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Light

• In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Eye, Order

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