Paul Cezanne Quotes

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Paul Cezanne

Profession : Artist

Birth : January 19, 1839

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

Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

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

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

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne

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

Paul Cezanne