If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
-
-
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE -
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE -
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE -
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNE -
A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNE -
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Nature 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 CEZANNE -
I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNE -
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNE