Paul Cezanne Quotes

» We live in a rainbow of chaos.

» 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.

» The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

» A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

» I paint as if I were Rothschild.

» With an apple I will astonish Paris.

» For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

» The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

» Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

» It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

» An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

» Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

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

» Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

» The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

» The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

» Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

» The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

» Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

» Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

» I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

» I want to die painting.

» I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

» I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

» Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

» Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

» I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

» It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

» The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

» People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

» The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

» Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

» If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

» You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

» A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

» A puny body weakens the soul.

» I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

» Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

» Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

» The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

» I allow no one to touch me.

» My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

» I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

» One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

» With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

» Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

» We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

» I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

» My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

» Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

» I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

» 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.

» I am a pupil of Pissarro.

» Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

» I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

» I have sworn to die painting.

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