I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEI am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEA puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEUnder this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNE