Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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.

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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I have sworn to die painting.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I allow no one to touch me.