I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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 CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNE