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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
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
— 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
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
— 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
If I think, I am lost.
— Paul Cezanne
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
— Paul Cezanne
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
— 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
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
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
— 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
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
— Paul Cezanne
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
— Paul Cezanne
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
— Paul Cezanne
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
— Paul Cezanne
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
When I start thinking, all is lost.
— 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
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
A puny body weakens the soul.
— 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
I allow no one to touch me.
— 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
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
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
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
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
— 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 is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
— 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