Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

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

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

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

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

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

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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

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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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.

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

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

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