You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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 CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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 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 CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEMy nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
PAUL CEZANNE