Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which… — 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
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
