Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — 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
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. — 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
The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the… — 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
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. — 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
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's… — 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
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and… — 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
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on… — 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
