Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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 CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEThe awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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 CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNE