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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. — Paul Cezanne

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system. — Wolf Kahn

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

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. — Paul Cezanne

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things. — Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is passing by! ... We must become that moment. — Paul Cezanne

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front. — Paul Cezanne

I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me. — Paul Cezanne

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations. — Paul Cezanne

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne

Nature is the best instructor. — Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne

I paint as if I were Rothschild. — Paul Cezanne

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting. — Etel Adnan

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

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you. — Paul Cezanne

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator. — Paul Cezanne

I wish to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. — Paul Cezanne

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. — Paul Cezanne

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience. — Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. — Paul Cezanne

If I think, I am lost. — Paul Cezanne

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well. — Paul Cezanne

I advance all of my canvas at one time. — Paul Cezanne

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it's just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen. (p313) — Malcolm Gladwell

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. — Paul Cezanne

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color. — Paul Cezanne

We live in a rainbow of chaos. — Paul Cezanne

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head. — Paul Cezanne

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul. — 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

If I think, everything is lost. — Paul Cezanne

The contour eludes me. — Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. — Paul Cezanne

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too — Paul Cezanne

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive. — Paul Cezanne

Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve; I can CREATE whatever I can IMAGINE! — Cezanne Poetess

The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. — Paul Cezanne

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere. — Paul Cezanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye! — Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started ... at the beginning. — Kimon Nicolaides

Chatter about art is almost always useless. — Paul Cezanne

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. — Paul Cezanne

I allow no one to touch me. — Paul Cezanne

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. — Paul Cezanne

When I start thinking, all is lost. — Paul Cezanne

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne

Pleasure must be found in study. — 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

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. — Paul Cezanne

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. — Paul Cezanne

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. — Paul Cezanne

I want to die 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

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

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. — Paul Cezanne

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler

I am the primitive of the method I have invented. — Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. — Paul Cezanne

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. — Paul Cezanne

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working. — Paul Cezanne

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand. — Paul Cezanne

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. — Paul Cezanne

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red. — 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

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen. — Paul Cezanne

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne

Time and reflection ... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us. — Paul Cezanne

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. — Paul Cezanne

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

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

I am a pupil of Pissarro. — Paul Cezanne

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! — Paul Cezanne

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. — Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne

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

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature. — Paul Cezanne

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture ... — Paul Cezanne

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

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. — Paul Cezanne

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious. — Michael Scott

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling. — Paul Cezanne

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. — Paul Cezanne

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. — Henri Matisse