Years Painting Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

— Paul Cezanne

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

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

— Paul Cezanne

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

— Paul Cezanne

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

— Paul Cezanne

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

All the theories mess you up inside.

— Paul Cezanne

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

— Paul Cezanne

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

— Paul Cezanne

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

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

— Paul Cezanne

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