Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

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

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

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

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.

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

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