Paul Cezanne Quotes

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
- Paul Cezanne

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.”
- Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
- Paul Cezanne

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
- Paul Cezanne

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
- Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
- Paul Cezanne

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”
- Paul Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
- Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
- Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
- Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”
- Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.”
- Paul Cezanne

With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
- Paul Cezanne

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
- Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
- Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
- Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
- Paul Cezanne

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.”
- Paul Cezanne

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
- Paul Cezanne

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.”
- Paul Cezanne