One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
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 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 CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNENature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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 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 CEZANNE