Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNENature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEMy nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNE