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 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
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going. — 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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. — 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
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
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — 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
