Quotes by 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."

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

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest."

"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."

"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation."

"An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all."

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

"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."

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

"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."

"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."

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

"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."

"Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations."

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

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

"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."

"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre."

"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience."

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

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

"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

"People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day."

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

"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."

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

"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest."

"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."

"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."

"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."

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

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."

"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me."