Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

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

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

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

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

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.

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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

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.