Quotes from Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

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.

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

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate… give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

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

Taste is the best judge, but it is rare. Art is accessible only to a very small number of individuals.

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

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

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

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

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

Celui qui n'a pas le goût de l'absolu se contente d'une médiocrité tranquille»

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

If I think, everything is lost.

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

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

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

The Landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks itself though me. I make it an object, let it project itself and endure within my painting....I become the subjective consciousness of the landscape, and my painting becomes its objective consciousness.