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.Collection: God
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.Collection: Religion
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.Collection: Intelligence
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.Collection: Nature
With an apple I will astonish Paris.Collection: Art
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.Collection: Age
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.Collection: Art
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.Collection: Art
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.Collection: Health
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.Collection: Nature
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.Collection: Art
We live in a rainbow of chaos.Collection: Life
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.Collection: Strength
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.Collection: Nature
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.Collection: Alone
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.Collection: Art
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
I allow no one to touch me.
A puny body weakens the soul.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I have sworn to die painting.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
I want to die painting.