An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — 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
