Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

— Paul Cezanne

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

— Paul Cezanne

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

— Paul Cezanne

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

— Paul Cezanne

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

— Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

— Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne