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Paul Cezanne
Quotes by Paul Cezanne
Quotes by Paul Cezanne
“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
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
“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
Paul Cezanne
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
Paul Cezanne
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
Paul Cezanne
“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
Paul Cezanne
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
Paul Cezanne
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
Paul Cezanne
“I allow no one to touch me.”
Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
Paul Cezanne
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”
Paul Cezanne
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
Paul Cezanne
“I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.”
Paul Cezanne
“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”
Paul Cezanne
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
Paul Cezanne
“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
Paul Cezanne
“The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”
Paul Cezanne
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
Paul Cezanne
“I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
Paul Cezanne
“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
Paul Cezanne
“It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
Paul Cezanne
“Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.”
Paul Cezanne
“Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”
Paul Cezanne
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
Paul Cezanne
“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.”
Paul Cezanne
“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”
Paul Cezanne
“I am the primitive of the method I have invented.”
Paul Cezanne
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”
Paul Cezanne
