We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
Paul Cezanne
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Paul Cezanne
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Paul Cezanne
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
Paul Cezanne
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Paul Cezanne
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
Paul Cezanne
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Paul Cezanne
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Paul Cezanne
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
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
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Paul Cezanne
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Paul Cezanne
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
Paul Cezanne
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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
I want to die painting.
Paul Cezanne
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Paul Cezanne
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.
Paul Cezanne
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Paul Cezanne
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
Paul Cezanne
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
Paul Cezanne
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne
I allow no one to touch me.
Paul Cezanne
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Paul Cezanne
Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.
Paul Cezanne
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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