#post-impressionism

“A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. p. 5: Letter to Emile Schuffenecker ,”

“Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885”

“freely and madly; you will make progress.. .Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately..”

“Gauguin is referring to the painting Breton Calvary: The Green Christ .”

“With this painting , I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream. in a letter to Theo van Gogh (1889”

“Quote from a conversation in 1888, Pont”

“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible. Comment voyez”

“This Cézanne [a 'Still life with Compotier, Fruit and Glass', Cézanne made c. 1879”

“Gauguin accepted membership in the Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, formed in 1873 by Pissarro, Claude Monet , Pierre”

“My Dear Mr. Pissarro ;”

“remark to Vincent van Gogh , ca. 1886 in Paris. Van Gogh showed Cezanne some of his recent paintings, he recently made in Paris”

“You positively paint like a madman. As quoted in: 'Mercure de France', 16 December 1908, p. 607”

“I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy. Quote in Cezanne's letter to Emile Zola , 23rd February 1884; as quoted in Renoir”

“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”

“'The very opposite of 'modeling' meant roughly that Cézanne and Pissarro in their common painting”

“Listen, monsieur Vollard , I worked a lot out of doors at L'Estaque . Except for that there was no other event of importance in my life during the years 1870”

“At Aix ( Aix en Provence ) I am not free; whenever I want to return to Paris , I always have to put up a fight, and, although your (his father) 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. Quote in Cezanne's letter to his father in Aix; ca. 1871”

“He (the painter Manet ) hits of the tone.. ..but his work lacks unity and temperament too. (ca. 1863) Quote in: Cézanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 27”

“Don't you think your Corot [to Guilemet the painter] is a little short on temperament? I'm painting a portrait of Vallabreque; the highlight on the nose is pure vermilion [remark of Cezanne ca. 1860] Quote in: Cézanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 28”

“I've ripped it to pieces; your portrait, you know. I tried to work on it this morning, but it went from bad to worse, so I destroyed it.. Quote of Cezanne, from his letter to Emile Zola , ca 1861; as quoted in Cezanne , by Ambroise Vollard , Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 23”