Paul Cezanne

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

— Paul Cezanne

Nature is the best instructor.

— Paul Cezanne

All the theories mess you up inside.

— Paul Cezanne

The contour eludes me.

— Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

I allow no one to touch me.

— Paul Cezanne

Pleasure must be found in study.

— Paul Cezanne

When I start thinking, all is lost.

— Paul Cezanne

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

— Paul Cezanne

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

— Paul Cezanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

— Paul Cezanne

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

— 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

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

— Paul Cezanne

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

— Paul Cezanne

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the…

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy…

— Paul Cezanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one…

— Paul Cezanne

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's…

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cézanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

— 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

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries…

— Paul Cezanne

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense…

— Paul Cezanne

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides!…

— Paul Cezanne

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more…

— Paul Cezanne

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given…

— Paul Cezanne

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting…

— Paul Cezanne

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…

— Paul Cezanne

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas…

— Paul Cezanne

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An…

— Paul Cezanne

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into…

— 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

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

If I think, everything is lost.

— Paul Cezanne

I wish to die painting.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

— Paul Cezanne