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

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

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

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 Quote

I am a pupil of Pissarro.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

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

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

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
- Paul Cezanne Quote

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

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

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

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

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

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
- Paul Cezanne Quote

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