It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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 CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNEMy nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE