I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
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 CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEGet to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE