All Paul Cezanne Quotes
- When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! Another One
- I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. Complex
- Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us. Comprehension
- I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not… Achieve
- Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful… Always Limited
- The contour eludes me. Contour
- I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature. Animates
- Nature is the best instructor. Best
- All my compatriots are asses compared to me. All
- I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only… All
- I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass… Combine
- The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. All
- Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible. Continue
- One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above… All
- The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. Bring
- Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am… Breathe
- Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study… Angle
- I wish to die painting. Die
- Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color. Color
- An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.… Classify
- I advance all of my canvas at one time. Advance
- Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed… Central
- Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. Artist
- In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. Contact
- The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up… Book