You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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 CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEI wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNE