The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNE