Paul CezanneThere is no model, there is only color.372Reflection
Paul CezanneIf I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.373Humanity
Paul CezanneKeep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.351Love
Paul CezanneTaste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.352Humanity
Paul CezanneIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.342Time
Paul CezanneThe artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate … ▶332SadnessTruth
Paul CezanneThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.321Hope
Paul CezanneDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.365Humanity
Paul CezanneHere, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.333Sadness
Paul CezanneA thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.344Sadness
Paul CezannePainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.311Sadness
Paul CezanneGenius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.355Life
Paul CezanneDesign 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 … ▶301Sadness
Paul CezanneThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.345Sadness
Paul CezanneIf I think, I am lost.324Thought
Paul CezanneFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. ✨ Beyond Visual Perspective. Book by Gaetano Curreri-Alibrandi, Yvonne Mark… ▶324ReadingSadness
Paul CezanneA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.313Love
Paul CezanneAll 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 wish… ▶347LifeSadnessThought
Paul CezanneYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.358Death
Paul CezanneI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.3710Sadness
Paul CezanneIs it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?293LifeTruth
Paul CezanneI want to die painting.348DeathSadness
Paul CezanneI paint as if I were Rothschild.282Sadness
Paul CezanneThe world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.326Death
Paul CezanneTime and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.348ReflectionTime
Paul CezanneKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.272Life
Paul CezanneWhat 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.349Truth
Paul CezanneSometimes 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.349LifeThoughtTime
Paul CezanneIs art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?261Love
Paul CezannePeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.338HumanityThought
