Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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.

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

— Paul Cezanne

Courage

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

— Paul Cezanne

Life

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Success

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom

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

— Paul Cezanne

Wisdom