Quotes By Paul Cezanne

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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I have sworn to die painting.

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

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

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

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.