I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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 CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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 CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNETreat 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 CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
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 CEZANNE