“Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”
― Paul Cezanne
“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
― Paul Cezanne
“An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
― Paul Cezanne
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
― Paul Cezanne
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
― Paul Cezanne
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
― Paul Cezanne
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
― Paul Cezanne
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”
― Paul Cezanne
“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.”
― Paul Cezanne
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
― Paul Cezanne
“You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
― Paul Cezanne
“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
― Paul Cezanne
“With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.”
― Paul Cezanne
“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I have sworn to die painting.”
― Paul Cezanne
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I am a pupil of Pissarro.”
― Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I want to die painting.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I paint as if I were Rothschild.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
― Paul Cezanne
“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.”
― Paul Cezanne
“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”
― Paul Cezanne
“A puny body weakens the soul.”
― Paul Cezanne
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
― Paul Cezanne
“I allow no one to touch me.”
― Paul Cezanne
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.”
― Paul Cezanne
“One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.”
― Paul Cezanne
“Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?”
― Paul Cezanne
“I am the primitive of the method I have invented.”
― Paul Cezanne
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