Quotes from Paul Cezanne

This sunshine... The chance fashion in which its rays fall, the way it moves, infiltrates things, becomes part of the earth's fabric -- who will ever paint that? Who will ever tell that story? The physical history of the earth, its psychology.

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

L'eau changée en vin, le monde changée en peinture. »

L'eau changée en vin, le monde changé en peinture. »

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I paint as I see, as I feel...They also feel and see like me, but they don't dare...I dare.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.

If you see a red tree, paint it bright red.

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