Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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.

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

I have sworn to die painting.

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 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.

A puny body weakens the soul.

I allow no one to touch me.

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.

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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.