I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. – Paul Cezanne
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. – 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
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. – Paul Cezanne
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? – Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. – Paul Cezanne
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. – Paul Cezanne
With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. – Paul Cezanne
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. – Paul Cezanne
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. – Paul Cezanne
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. – Paul Cezanne
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it. – Paul Cezanne
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. – Paul Cezanne
