Quotes by 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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it."