Paul Cezanne Quotes

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.

All the theories mess you up inside.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Everything 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.

If I think, everything is lost.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.