I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could
ever want to own.
-Andy Warhol
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I
mean, how can you tell?
-Andy Warhol
I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked
the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting
money.
-Andy Warhol
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
-Andy Warhol
I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes
everybody will be famous.”
-Andy Warhol
I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes
commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
-Andy Warhol
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my
paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.
-Andy Warhol
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
-Andy Warhol
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
-Andy Warhol
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s
finger.
-Andy Warhol
It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they
were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to
feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
-Andy Warhol
Land really is the best art.
-Andy Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-Andy Warhol
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.
-Andy Warhol
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And
once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
-Andy Warhol
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live
because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
-Andy Warhol
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to
learn how to be babies longer.
-Andy Warhol
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-Andy Warhol
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
-Andy Warhol
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-Andy Warhol
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art
and working is art and good business is the best art.
-Andy Warhol
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
-Andy Warhol
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be.
And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.
-Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them
yourself.
-Andy Warhol
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the
richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
-Andy Warhol
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close
relationships.
-Andy Warhol
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
-Andy Warhol
I am a deeply superficial person.
-Andy Warhol
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
-Andy Warhol
I like boring things.
-Andy Warhol
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I
love plastic. I want to be plastic.
-Andy Warhol
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
-Andy Warhol
The Quotes about William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is the most widely read of all Authors and the
popularity of the works of Shakespeare, in English speaking countries, is
second only to the Bible. He intrigues other authors. It is, therefore, not
surprising that there are many quotes and quotations about William
Shakespeare by his peers.
Quotes about William Shakespeare "an up-start Crow"
His fellow actors and dramatists also had a word or two to say about him so we have included quotes from his peers! This probably started with the
infamous quote about William Shakespeare by Robert Greene who
criticised the Bard in his deathbed autobiographical Groatsworth of Wit
(September 3, 1592 ) The quote is "for there is an up-start Crow,
beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players
hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best
of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit
the onely Shake-scene in a countrey." About three months after Green's
death his editor, Henry Chettle, made a public apology to Shake-speare!
Not all quotes, like the Robert Greene Groatsworth of Wit about the great
Bard are complimentary.
Quotes about William Shakespeare - the Identity problem
The debates surrounding the mysteries of life and works of William
Shakespear have raged on for centuries. Was he the author? Who else
could have written his works? The famous author James Barrie gave us
one of the most witty quotes about the identity problem
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he
did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
Quotes about William Shakespeare by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The following quotes about William Shake-speare by Oscar Wilde have
such an amusing 'ring of truth' that no apology is given for singling them
out!
"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
"Are the commentators on "Hamlet" really mad, or only pretending to
be?"
Famous quotes about William Shakespeare
The following selection of famous quotes about William Shakepeare are
generally taken from poets and authors. Some quotes are critical and
others complimentary. The controversy surrounding the Bard continues...
rkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all
who say he is very good.
raves Quote (1895 - 1985)
is to Shakespear what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at
ures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.
n Quote (1573 - 1637)
My Shakespear, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid
Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room.
Ben Jonson Quote (1573 - 1637)
Sweet Swan of Avon!
Ben Jonson Quote (1573 - 1637)
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Ben Jonson Quote (1573 - 1637)
I have of late had the same thought - for things which I do half at Random
are afterwards confirmed by my judgment in a dozen features of
Propriety. Is it too daring to fancy Shakespeare this Presider?
John Keats Quote (1795 - 1821), "Letter to B.R. Haydon, May 1817"
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder
That such trivial people should muse and thunder
In such lovely language.
D. H. Lawrence Quote (1885 - 1930)
Or sweetest Shakespear, Fancy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild.
John Milton Quote (1608 - 1674), "L'Allegro"
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d bones,
The labour of an age in piled stones,
Or that his hallow’d relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
John Milton Quote (1608 - 1674), "Epitaph on Shakespeare"
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
John Milton Quote (1608 - 1674), "Epitaph"
And one wild Shakespear, following Nature's lights,
Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
Thomas More Quote (1779 - 1852), "The Sceptic"
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
Laurence Olivier Quote (1907 - 1989)
Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women
especially, owe to Shakespear for his vindication of women in these
fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?
Dame Ellen Terry Quote (1848 - 1928)
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed,
Shakespear, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Quote (1717 - 1797), "Letter to Wren, 1764"
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shake-speare unlocked his heart.
William Wordsworth Quote (1770 - 1850), "Miscellaneous Sonnets"
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quote (1806 - 1861), "A Vision of Poets"
With this same key
Shake-speare unlocked his heart' once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shake-speare he!
Robert Browning Quote (1812 - 1899), "House"
And yet, very literally, it is a priceless thing..
Thomas Carlyle Quote (1795 - 1881) "Heroes, Hero-Worship and the
Heroic in History"
If called to define Shakespeare's faculty, I should say superiority of
intellect, and think I had included all under that.
Thomas Carlyle Quote (1795 - 1881) "Heroes, Hero-Worship and the
Heroic in History"
The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame
Still sat unconquered in a ring,
Remembering him like anything.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) "The Shakespeare Memorial"
Our myriad-minded Shakespear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote (1772 - 1834), "Biography. Chap. xv"
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the
largest and most comprehensive soul.
John Dryden Quote (1631 - 1700), "Essay of Dramatic Poesy"
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and
you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
John Dryden Quote (1631 - 1700), "Essay on Dramatic Poetry of the Last
Age"
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
John Dryden Quote (1631 - 1700) "Essay of Dramatic Poesy"
He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read
nature. He looked inwards, and found her there.
John Dryden Quote (1631 - 1700) "Essay of Dramatic Poesy"
I am the owner of the sphere
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote (1803 - 1882), "The Absorbing Soul"
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote (1803 - 1882), "May-Day and Other Pieces"
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies,
“Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead
bodies and brought them into life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote (1803 - 1882) "Letters and Social Aims"
Robert Graves The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really
is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves Quote
"Hamlet" is a coarse and barbarous play . . . One might think the work is
a product of a drunken savages imagination."
Voltaire Quote
"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays
please only in London and Canada"
Voltaire Quote (1694 - 1778)
"Are the commentators on "Hamlet" really mad, or only pretending to
be.
Oscar Wilde Quote (1854 - 1900)
Albert Einstein Quotes
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert
Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and all science." - Albert Einstein
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and
future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius --and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space
and gravitation have no separate existence from matter." - Albert Einstein
"For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter.
And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our
present universe." - Albert Einstein
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
"I don't believe in mathematics." - Albert Einstein
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." - Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." - Albert
Einstein
"I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific
research." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - Religon
"God does not play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
"I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details." - Albert Einstein
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or
would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the
fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern
science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My
religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in
the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality.
Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God." - Albert Einstein 'The Human
Side', 1954
"Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not." - Albert Einstein
"Strange is our situation here upon this earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing
why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose." - Albert Einstein
"There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond
anything that we can comprehend is my religion." - Albert Einstein
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the
distance by an invisible player." - Albert Einstein
"Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me." - Albert Einstein
"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men
because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe." - Albert Einstein
"I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice." - Albert Einstein
"When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - Humanity
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." - Albert
Einstein
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who
look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." Albert Einstein
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." - Albert
Einstein
"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." - Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein
"So long as there are men there will be wars." - Albert Einstein
"Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings." - Albert Einstein
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in
which he has attained liberation from the self." - Albert Einstein
"It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to
be helped." - Albert Einstein
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties;
no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained
by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein
"America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and
who believe in the principle of freedom and justice." - Albert Einstein
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - Humorous
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former." - Albert Einstein
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it." Albert Einstein
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "they want to
see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." Albert Einstein
"With fame, I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon."
- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - Education
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert
Einstein
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard
duty." - Albert Einstein
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach." - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." - Albert
Einstein
"We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real
nature of things we shall never know." - Albert Einstein
"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about
relativity faster than I learn baseball." - Albert Einstein
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man
who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." - Albert
Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - General
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot
understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly
and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created
a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Albert Einstein
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter
how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery
into which we were born." - Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger;
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." - Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in
freedom." - Albert Einstein
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein
"Where there is love there is no question." - Albert Einstein
"I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein
"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service." - Albert Einstein
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain
children all our lives." - Albert Einstein
"Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human
beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all." - Albert Einstein
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." - Albert Einstein
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein
"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular
fellow?" - Albert Einstein
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given
a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." - Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert
Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop
questioning." - Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." - Albert
Einstein
"Truth is what stands the test of experience." - Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." Albert Einstein
"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real
thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In
any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice." - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot
understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses their intelligence." - Albert Einstein
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose
we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other
people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends." - Albert
Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein
"To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at
the world through a car window." - Albert Einstein
"I love to travel, But hate to arrive." - Albert Einstein
"Politics is more difficult than physics." - Albert Einstein
"I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a
crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract
things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me." Albert Einstein
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious." - Albert
Einstein
"Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather
disgracefully." - Albert Einstein
"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective
perception and thought." - Albert Einstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your
mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"The ideals that have lighted my way and time after time have give me new courage to face
life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." - Albert Einstein
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater." Albert Einstein
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." - Albert Einstein
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist
warmly acclaimed." - Albert Einstein
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for
an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein
"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means." Albert Einstein
"The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein
"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." - Albert Einstein
"It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service." - Albert
Einstein
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein
"As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself." Albert Einstein
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon,
in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A
kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us
to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall require a substantially new manner
of thinking if mankind is to survive." - Albert Einstein
"We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many
different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not
know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That,
it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a
universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these
laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations." Albert Einstein
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving." Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a
hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that
created them." - Albert Einstein
"I admit that thoughts influence the body." - Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." - Albert
Einstein
"On the big Bang theory: "For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion
and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth
remained - and that's our present universe." - Albert Einstein
"MacMillan has this particular quote simply as "God doesn't play dice." and notes that it is
often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe". - Albert Einstein
"He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of
nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition,
sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness
than one man can bear." - Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in
freedom." - Albert Einstein
"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and
years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother
or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on,
they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind." - Albert Einstein
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Einstein
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent or absorbing positive knowledge." Albert Einstein
"I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the
next person seriously." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes - Last Words
When Einstein died on April 18, 1955 he left a piece of writing ending in an unfinished
sentence.
These were his last words:
In essence, the conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once
again presented to mankind in semi religious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the
development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both
parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is
doomed. Despite this knowledge, statesmen in responsible positions on both sides continue to
employ the well-known technique of seeking to intimidate and demoralize the opponent by
marshaling superior military strength. They do so even though such a policy entails the risk of
war and doom. Not one statesman in a position of responsibility has dared to pursue the only
course that holds out any promise of peace, the course of supranational security, since for a
statesman to follow such a course would be tantamount to political suicide. Political passions,
once they have been fanned into flame, exact their victims ... Citater fra...
- Don’t you think your Corot (remark to Guilemet the painter, fh) is a little short on temperament?
I’m painting a portrait of Vallabreque; the highlight on the nose is pure vermilion (before 1860)
* artist quote: “Cézanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 28
*****
- He (Manet, fh) hits of the tone… …but his work lacks unity and temperament too. (ca. 1863)
* source: “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 27
*****
- At Aix (en Provence, f.h.) I am not free; whenever I want to return to Paris, I always have to put up
a fight, and, although your (his father’s, fh) opposition may not be absolute, I am always deeply
affected by the resistance that I encounter from you. I sincerely want my liberty unfettered… …; it
would give me great pleasure to work in the Midi, some aspects of which offer many resources to the
painter; there I would be able to attack some of the problems that I wish to solve…
* artist quote by Cezanne from Paris: letter to his father in Aix; 1871-73; as quoted in “Cezanne”, by
Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, pp. 33-34
*****
- The sun here (in Estaque, ed.) is so terrific that objects appear silhouetted not only in white or
black, but in blue, red, brown, violet. I may be wrong, but it seems to me to be the opposite of
modeling.
* source:a letter to his teacher Pissarro (they painted a lot together in open air, ed.) around 1878; as
quoted on website http://www.nga.gov (famous painter of still life, portrait and landscape paintings
*****
- I was very pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight could not be reproduced; it had to
be represented by something else… …by colour.
* Cezanne’s artist quote on reproducing sun-light in his painting, from “Renoir – his life and work”,
Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 79
*****
- I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy.
* artist quotation from a letter to his youth-friend Zola, 23rd February 1884, as quoted in “Renoir –
his life and work”, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p.
175
*****
- I had the company of monsieur Gibert. Such people see clearly, but they have the teacher’s eye. As
the train was taking us past Alexis’ place a staggering subject for a picture came into view towards
the east: St-Victoire (later Cezanne would made series of paintings of Mont St. Victoire, fh) and the
crags above Beaurecueil. I said’ What a splendid subject’; he replied, ‘’The lines are too
symmetrical’. Referring to L’Assommoir’ (novel of his youth friend Emile Zola, fh) about which,
incidentally, he was the first person to speak to me, he said some very sound things, and praised it,
but always from the point of view of technique.
* quote with information from: letter to his friend Émile Zola, Aix-en-Provence, 14 April 1878, as
quoted in ”Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock – ”, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and
Hudson, London, 1963, pp. 178-179
*****
- Listen, monsieur Vollard, I worked a lot out of doors at Estaque. Except for that there was no other
event of importance in my life during the years 1870-71. I divided my time between the field and the
studio… …Zola closed his letter by urging me to come back to Paris too (in 1872 Cezanne went back,
fh)… …but all the same, something told me to go back to Paris. It was too long since I had seen the
Louvre. But understand, Monsieur Vollard, I was working at that time on a landscape which was not
going well. So I stayed at Aix (en Provence, fh) a little while longer to study on my canvas.
* source of the artist quote: “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York,
1984, p. 32-33
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- …’The Nightwatch ( large, famous painting of Dutch 17th century painter Rembrandt, fh)… …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’ hung in my bedroom, it would
make me sick.
* source of the quote: a conversation in Aix with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne in 1896; as quoted
in “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67
*****
- Everybody’s going crazy over the Impressionists; what art needs is a Poussin (French Classical
painter, fh) made over according to nature. There you have it in a nutshell.
* quote from: a conversation in Aix with Vollard and Cezanne, in his studio, in 1896; as quoted in
“Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67
*****
- Wouldn’t it be wonderful to paint a nude there? (along the river near Aix, fh) There are
innumerable motifs here on the banks of the river; the same spot viewed from a different angle offers
a subject of the utmost interest. It is so varied that I think I could keep busy for months without
changing my place., simply turning now tot the right and now to the left.
* Paul Cezanne, his quote from: a conversation, in Aix near the river, in 1896; as quoted in
“Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74 (studio in Aix en
Provence, near the Mont St. Victoire, of which he made several landscape-paintings
*****
- …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.
*source: a conversation, in Aix near the river, in 1896; as quoted in “{Paul Cezanne”, by Ambroise
Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74 (
*****
- You wretch (portraying the art dealer Vollard who changed his pose during a painter session;
Vollard had been posed more than 150 times for one portrait, fh)! You’ve spoiled the pose. Do I have
to tell you again you must sit like an apple? Does an apple move?
* source of this artist quote: a conversation in Cézanne’s studio in Paris, around 1896-98; as quoted in
“Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74
*****
- Painting must give us the flavour of nature’s eternity. Everything, you understand. So I join
together nature’s straying hands… …From all sides, here there and everywhere, I select colours,
tones and shades; I set them down, I bring them together… …They make lines, they become objects
– rocks, trees – without my thinking about them… …But if there is the slightest distraction, the
slightest hitch, above all if I interpret too much one day, if I’m carried away today by a theory which
contradicts yesterday’s, if I think while I’m painting, if I meddle, then whoosh!, everything goes to
pieces.
* artist quote from: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations”
(1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 148
*****
- Art has a harmony which parallels that of nature. The people who tell you that the artist is always
inferior to nature are idiots! He is parallel to it. Unless, of course, he deliberately intervenes. His
whole aim must be silence. He must silence all the voices of prejudice within him, he must forget…
…And then the entire landscape will engrave itself on the sensitive plate of his being.
* source: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906)
by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 150
*****
- You positively paint like a madman (when Vincent van Gogh showed Cezanne some of his recent
paintings, he recently made in Paris, fh)
* artist quote, reacting on the young Van Gogh: quoted in ‘Mercure de France’, 16 December 1908, p.
607
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- … that distinguished aesthete (Gustave Moreau, famous artist and art teacher in Paris, fh) who
paints nothing than rubbish, it is because his dreams are suggested not by the inspiration of Nature,
but by what he has seen in the museums… …I should like to have that good man under my wing, to
point out to him the doctrine of a development of art by contact with Nature. It’s so sane, so
comforting, the only just conception of art.
* source of his artist quote, criticizing the Paris painter Moreau, from : a conversation in Aix, in the
studio of Cézanne in 1896; as quoted in “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc.
New York, 1984, p. 66
*****
- …Nature as it is seen and nature as it is felt, the nature that is there.. (he pointed towards the green
and blue plain, J. G.) and the nature that is here (he tapped his forehead, J. G.) both of which have to
fuse in order to endure, to live that life, half human and half divine, which is the life of art or, if you
will.… the life of god. The landscape is reflected, humanized, rationalized within me. I objectives it,
project it, fix it on my canvas…
* artist quote on Nature, from: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cézanne, – a Memoir with
Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 150
*****
- Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. That’s why colour appears so entirely
dramatic, to true painters. Look at mont Sainte-Victoire there (the hill Cezanne painted frequently,
fh) How it soars, how imperiously it thirsts for the sun… …For a long time I was quite unable to
paint Sainte-Victoire; I had no idea to go about it because, like others who just look at it, I imagined
the shadow to be concave, whereas in fact it’s convex, it disperses outward from the centre. Instead
of accumulating, it evaporates, becomes fluid, bluish, participating in the movements of the
surrounding air.
* source of Cezanne’s art quote on color in relation to St Victoire, from: ‘What he told me – The motif’,
ín “Cézanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and
Hudson, London 1991 p. 153
*****
- Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing sensations.
* quote on Nature and representation, from ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cezanne, – a
Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
p. 46 (from Cezanne, the painter in Aix en Provence, famous for his Mont St. Victoire paintings and
landscapes from Estaque)
*****
- Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth
more than the Ecole’s (French Classical Art Academy, ed.) everlasting slices of buttered bread, that
tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot
will give birth to a revolution.
* source ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 –
1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 68
*****
- Here you are, put this somewhere, on your worktable. 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.. (talking
about a black white photo of the painting ‘Olypmpia’ of Édouard Manet, fh)
* artist quote from: ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cezanne, – a Memoir with
Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 71 (painter
of Aix en Provence, famous for his Mont Victoire paintings and from Estaque; he broke
Impressionism + prepared Cubism; more biography facts at the bottom)
*****
- This will be my picture, the one I shall leave behind… …But the center? Where is the centre? I
can’t find the center… …Tell me, what shall I group it all around? Ah, Poussin’s arabesque! He
knew all about that. In the London ‘Bacchanal’, in the Louvre ‘Flora’ (both are paintings of Poussin,
which Cézanne admired, fh), where does the line of the figures and the landscape begin, where does it
finish… …It’s all one. There is no center. Personally I would like something like a hole, a ray of light,
an invisible sun to keep an eye on my figures, to bathe them, care them, intensify them… …in the
middle (remark on one of his own ‘Bathers’ paintings, fh)
* source of information: ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cezanne, – a Memoir with
Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 78
*****
- See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp,
light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
* artist quote from:”Fumées dans la campagne”, Edmond Jaloux, as quoted in “Cezanne, – a Memoir
with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 119,
note 2
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- Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without
teaching them anything… …A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train
together… …but no program, no instruction in painting… …drawing is still alright, it doesn’t count,
but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other
people painting..
* Paul Cézanne, source of his artist quote: ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cezanne, – a
Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
p. 124
*****
- Alas, because I’m no longer innocent. We’re civilized beings. Whether we like it or not, we have the
cares and concerns of classical civilization in our bones. I want to express myself clearly when I paint.
In people who feign ignorance there is a kind of barbarism even more detestable than the academic
kind: it’s no longer possible to be ignorant today. One no longer is. We come into the world armed
with facility. Facility is the death of art and we must rid ourselves of it.
* his artist quote on ignorance: ‘What I know or have seen of his life’, in “Cézanne, – a Memoir with
Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 155
*****
- 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, fh) didn’t for see our open-air school, nor that other calamity which has followed close upon
its heels: open-air indoors,
* quote on open-air painting art: a conversation with Vollard in 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
*****
- In that Renaissance (Cellini, Tintoretto, Titian..) there was an explosion of unique truthfulness, a
love of painting and form… …Then come the Jesuits and everything is formal; everything has to be
taught and learned. It required a revolution for nature to be rediscovered; for Delacroix to paint his
beach at Étratat, (coast of Normandy, France, fh),Corot his roman rubble, Courbet his forest scenes
and his waves. And how miserable slow that revolution was, how many stages it had to go through!
…These artists had not yet discovered that nature has more to do with depth than with surfaces. I
can tell you, you can do things to the surface… … but by going deep you automatically go to the
truth. You feel a healthy need to be truthful. You’d rather strip your canvas right down than invent
or imagine a detail. You want to know.
* quote on rediscovering Nature by the painters Corot and Courbet and truth in painting:‘What he told
me – The motif’, ín “Cézanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet,
Thames and Hudson, London 1991 pp. 157-158
*****
- … But there is better. Simplicity, being direct. Everything else is just a game, just building castles in
the sky. Basically I don’t think of anything when I paint. I see colours. I strive with joy to convey
them on to my canvas just as I see them. They arrange themselves as they choose, any old way.
Sometimes that makes a picture. I’m brainless animal. Very content if I could be just that …
* artist quote on his way of painting: brainless: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a
Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
pp. 158-159
*****
-… and wanting to force nature to say things, making trees twist and rocks frown, as Gustave Doré
does, or even painting it like Leonardo da Vinci, that’s literature too. There’s logic of colour, damn it
all! The painter owes allegiance to that alone. Never to the logic of the brain; if he abandons himself
to that logic, he’s lost… …Painting is first and foremost an optical affaire. The stuff of our art is
there, in what our eyes are thinking… …If you respect nature, it will always unravel it’s meaning for
you.
* source of his quote on painting as an optical way of seeing: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín
“Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson,
London 1991 p. 161
*****
- Colour, if I may say so, is biological. Colour is alive and colour alone makes things come alive…
…Without losing any part of myself, I need to get back to that instinct, so that these colours in the
scattered fields signify an idea to me, just as to them they signify a crop. Confronted by a yellow, they
spontaneously feel the harvesting activity required of them, just as I, when faced with the same
ripening tint …
* source of his quote on colour: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a Memoir with
Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 162
*****
-…Everything I am telling you ( to Joachim Gasquet, fh) about – the sphere, the cone, cylinder,
concave, shadow – on mornings when I’m tired these notions of mine get me going, they stimulate
me, I soon forget them once I start using my eyes. (famous quote, which influenced early Cubism art
of Braque and Picasso strongly, fh)
* source of his most famous quote on sphere, the cone, cylinder, concave, shadow –admired by the
Cubist painters like the young Braque and Picasso: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a
Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
pp. 163-164
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*****
- But what an eye Claude Monet has, the most prodigious eye since painting began! I raise my hat to
him. As for Courbet, he already had the image in his eye, ready-made. Monet used to visit him, you
know, in his early days… …But a touch of green, believe me, is enough to give us a landscape, just as
a flesh tone will translate a face for us …
* artist quote on the superb way of seeing by Monet: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a
Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991
pp. 164
*****
- That is why, perhaps, all of us derive Camille Pissarro (his ‘teacher’ in impressionistic landscape
painting; they frequently painted together in open air, fh). 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 ochre’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.
* source: ‘What he told me – The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906)
by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 164
*****
- Monet’s cliffs will survive as a prodigious series, as will a hundred others of his canvases… …He’ll
be in the Louvre, for sure, alongside Constable and Turner (famous English Romantic landscape
painters, fh). Damn it, he’s even greater. He painted the iridescence of the earth. He’s painted water.
Remember those Rouen cathedrals (famous series of paintings by Monet, fh)… …But where
everything slips away in these pictures of Monet’s, nowadays we must insert a solidity, a framework
…
* artist quote, expressing his admiration for the French impressionist painter Monet:‘What he told me –
The motif’, ín “Cezanne, – a Memoir with Conversations” (1897 – 1906) by Joachim Gasquet,
Thames and Hudson, London 1991 p. 165
*****
- You can’t ask a man to talk sensibly about the art of painting if he simply doesn’t know anything
about it. But by God, how can he (Zola his youth friend who used Cezanne as a model in his novel
‘L’Oeuvre’, fh) dare to say that a painter is done because he has painted one bad picture? When a
picture isn’t realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one.
* source of his artist quote on the painter-novel, written by Zola conversation in Cezanne’s studio in
Aix, after the death of Zola in 1902; as quoted in “Cézanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover
publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 74
*****
- I work obstinately, and once in a while I catch a glimpse of the Promised Land. Am I to be like te
great leader of the Hebrews, or will I really attain unto it?… …I have a large studio in the country. I
can work better there than in the city. I have made some progress. Oh, why so late and so painful?
Must art indeed be a priesthood, demanding that the faithful be bound to it body and soul?
* quote on still making progress in painting: letter to Vollard, Aix, 9 January, 1903; as quoted in
“Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 103
*****
- Allow me to repeat what I said when you were here: deal with nature by means of the cylinder, the
sphere and the cone, all placed in perspective, so that each side of an object or a plane is directed
towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth, a section of nature, or if you
prefer, of the spectacle spread before our eyes by the ‘Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Deus’ Lines
perpendicular tot that horizon give depth. But for us men, nature has more depth than surface, hence
the need to introduce in our vibrations of light, represented by reds and yellows, enough blue tints to
give a feeling of air.
* Paul Cezanne, source of his famous artist quote on … the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, all placed
in perspective …, strongly admired by the Cubist painters: letter to Émile Bernhard, 15 April 1904, as
quoted in ”Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock – ”, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and
Hudson, London, 1963, p. 180
*****
- …This is what happens, unquestionably – I am positive: an optical sensation is produced in our
visual organ, which leads us classify as light, half-tone or quarter-tone, the planes represented by
sensations of color. (Thus the light itself does not exist for the painter.) As long as, inevitably, one
proceeds from black to white, the former of these abstractions being a kind of point of rest both for
eye and brain, we flounder about, we cannot achieve self-mastery, get possession of ourselves. During
this period (I tend to repeat myself, inevitably) we turn to the admirable works (here: of the five
great Venetian painters like Titian and Tintoretto, fh) handed down to us through the ages, in which
we find comfort and support…
* Paul Cezanne, his quote on how using color, planes and tones: letter to Émile Bernhard, 23
December 1904, as quoted in ”Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock – ”, Richard
Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 184
*****
- The point to be made clear is that, whatever may be our temperament, or our power in the presence
of nature, we have to render what we actually see, forgetting everything that appeared before our
own time. Which, I think, should enable the artist to express his personality to the full, be it large or
small. Now that I am an old man, about seventy, the sensations of colour which produce light give
rise to abstractions that prevent me from covering my canvas, and from trying to define the outlines
of objects when their points of contact are tenuous and delicate; with the result that my image or
picture is incomplete. For another thing, the planes become confused, superimposed; hence NeoImpressionism, where everything is outlined in black, an error which must be uncompromisingly
rejected. And nature, if consulted, shows us how to achieve this aim (also Pissarro and Monet
emphasized this question of using the primary colors and avoiding black, fh).
* Paul Cezanne, his artist quote of rejecting neo-impressionism as a big error in painting:a letter to
Émile Bernhard, 23 October 1905, as quoted in ”Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock –
”, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 180
*****
- Alas! The memories that are swallowed up in the abyss of the years! I’m all alone now+ I would
never be able to escape from the self-seeking of human kind anyway. Now it’s theft, conceit,
infatuation, and now it’s rapine or seizure of one’s production. But Nature is very beautiful. They
can’t take that away from me. (the last conversation Vollard had with Cezanne, fh)
* his artist quote on memory as an old man: a conversation in Cézanne’s studio in Aix, the End of
1905; as quoted in “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 112
*****
- I still work with difficulty, but I seem to get along. That is the important thing to me. Sensations
form the foundation of my work, and they are imperishable, I think. Moreover, I am getting rid of
that devil who, as you know, used to stand behind me and forced me at will to “imitate”; he’s not
even dangerous any more. (a week later Cezanne died, fh)
* quote on painting in his last year, from: the last letter to his son Paul, Aix, 15 October 1906; as
quoted in “Cezanne”, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 112 (painter
of Aix en Provence, famous for his Mont Victoire paintings and from Estaque; Cezanne broke
Impressionism and prepared Cubism; more biography facts at the bottom)
*****
not sourced artist quotes by Paul Cezanne
- All tones interpenetrate; all forms revoltingly interlock. This is coherence.
*****
- Art must make nature eternal in our imagination.
*****
- I try to render perspective through colour alone.
*****
- I want to make Impressionism something solid and durable.
*****
- Impressionism, what does it mean? It is the optical mixing of colours… …which are broken down
on the canvas and reassembled by the eye. (short statement on Impressionism painting )
*****
- Light is not a thing that can be reproduced, but something that must be depicted using something
else… … colours. (artist quote on light and color in painting , Paul Cézanne)
*****
- My canvas “joins hands”, it holds firm. (short statement on creating art)
*****
- Nature is not on the surface; it is in the depths. Colours are an expression of these depths on the
surface. They rise from the roots of the world. (remark on color in painting)
*****
- Perhaps I came too early. I am the primitive of a new art. (statement on his place in painting)
*****
- The means of expressing emotion is only to be acquired through very long experience.
*****
- We must not paint what we think we see, but what we see. (short statement on the artist duty to see
and look.
*****
- When colour has its greatest richness, then form has its plenitude. (short statement on color)
*****
- The eye absorbs… … the brain produces form. (short quotes on the eye and the brain, concerning
form; Paul Cezanne)
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