Paul Cezanne Quotes

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

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.