Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. — 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
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — 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
