Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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

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

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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

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

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

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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

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

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

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have sworn to die painting.

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

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

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

I want to die painting.

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

A puny body weakens the soul.

I allow no one to touch me.