Here, 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 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 CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
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 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 CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNE