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
Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — 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
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
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
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
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a… — 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
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
