Quotes from Paul Cezanne

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

A puny body weakens the soul.

I have sworn to die painting.

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

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

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

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

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

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

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

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

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

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

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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

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

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