Artist Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

— Paul Cezanne

I wish to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

— Paul Cezanne

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

— Paul Cezanne

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

— Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

— Paul Cezanne

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the…

— Paul Cezanne

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

— Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad…

— Paul Cezanne

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

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.…

— Paul Cezanne

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a…

— Paul Cezanne

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination…

— Paul Cezanne

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary…

— Paul Cezanne

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting…

— Paul Cezanne

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..…

— Paul Cezanne

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

— Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

— Paul Cezanne

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

— Paul Cezanne

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

— Paul Cezanne

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

— Paul Cezanne

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

— Paul Cezanne

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

— Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

— Paul Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

— Paul Cezanne

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture…

— Paul Cezanne