Paul Cézanne Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Right now a moment of time is passing by We must become that moment.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

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

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

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

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

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling block of the uncertain.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

If I think, everything is lost.

All the theories mess you up inside.

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

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

There is no model, there is only colour.

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

With an apple, I will astonish Paris.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.