Paul Cezanne famous quotes

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

#Truth Is #Prove It #Prove

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

#Emotional #Genius #Emotion

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

#Strength #Awareness #Modest

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

#Art #Personality #Seductive

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

#Art #Emotion #Works Of Art

I want to die painting.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Want #Painting #I Want To Die

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

#Art #Flower #Judging

With an apple I will astonish Paris.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Apples #Paris

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

#Life #Beauty #Beautiful

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Work #Knowing #Fool

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

#Thinking #Mad #Sometimes

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

#Thinking #Artist #Painting

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Canvas #Blank

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

#Light #Color

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Photography #Art #Creativity

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

#Art #Copying #Painting

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

#Artist #Light #Two

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Done

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

#Art #Lying #Paint

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Nature #Art #Environment

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

#Eye #Artist #Two

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

#Inspirational #Feelings #Copying

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

#Eye #Thinking #Needs

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Spheres #Cylinders #Cones

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Men #Wish

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Drawing #Colour

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Rain #Fading #Scent

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Color #Design

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Feelings #Crafts

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

#Friendship #Sun #Laziness

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Love #Dream #Rainbow

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Years #Stopping

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

#Artist #Rivers #Littles

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

#Years #Sculpture #Painting

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

#Artist #Giving #Individuality

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Painting #Painter

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

#Past #Artist #Add

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Want #Disappear

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Artist #Painting

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

#Relationship #Harmony #Paint

Pure drawing is an abstraction.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Drawing

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us...
-- Paul Cezanne

#Beautiful #Art #Book

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Reality #Giving #Mind

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

#Mean #Long #Essentials

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

#Art #Numbers #Judging

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Color

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

#Eye #Monet

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Color #Ideas #Rainbow

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Art #Fall #Giving