It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
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 Copy Share
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature,… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share
