An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE