Words matter. These are the best Paul Cezanne Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
I allow no one to touch me.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
