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 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
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
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. — 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
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the… — 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
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
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design… — 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
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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 Image
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. — 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
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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 Image
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
