All Paul Cezanne Quotes
- I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. Art
- I am the primitive of the method I have invented. Inspirational
- I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. Feel
- My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. Age
- My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Enfeebled
- People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. Basin
- Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted. Day
- You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. Art
- Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. Artist
- I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Alone
- I have sworn to die painting. Die
- I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. Animates
- I paint as if I were Rothschild. Inspirational
- I want to die painting. Die
- I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. Amateur
- Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? Art
- Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? Conventional
- One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Add
- Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. Developing
- Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Abstraction
- The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. Artist
- The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Clear
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. Enclose
- With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. All
- What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with… Always Subordinate