Paul Cezanne Quotes

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

I allow no one to touch me.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

I want to die painting.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.