“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
– Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
– Paul Cezanne
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
– Paul Cezanne
“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
– Paul Cezanne
“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
– Paul Cezanne
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations.”
– Paul Cezanne
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.”
– Paul Cezanne
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.”
– Paul Cezanne
“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.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
– Paul Cezanne
“You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
– Paul Cezanne
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
– Paul Cezanne
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
– Paul Cezanne
“An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.”
– Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
– Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
– Paul Cezanne
“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.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
– Paul Cezanne
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
– Paul Cezanne