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Quotes by Paul Cezanne


The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
– Paul Cezanne
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
– Paul Cezanne
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
– Paul Cezanne
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
– 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
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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
– Paul Cezanne
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
– Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
– Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
– Paul Cezanne
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
– Paul Cezanne
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
– Paul Cezanne
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
– Paul Cezanne
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
– Paul Cezanne
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
– Paul Cezanne
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
– 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 more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
– Paul Cezanne
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
– Paul Cezanne
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
– Paul Cezanne
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
– Paul Cezanne
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
– Paul Cezanne
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
– Paul Cezanne
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
– Paul Cezanne