Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne

23 quotes

As a French painter, Paul Cezanne earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. The range of their thinking — from Art to Nature — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 32 quotes from Paul Cezanne, each offering a different angle on Art, Nature, Age, Work, and Truth. Readers often gravitate to this one: "My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

All Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

— Paul Cezanne

Alone

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

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

— Paul Cezanne

Nature

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

— Paul Cezanne

Art

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

— Paul Cezanne

Nature

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

— Paul Cezanne

Age

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

— Paul Cezanne

Nature

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

— Paul Cezanne

Nature

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

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

— Paul Cezanne

Age

“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”

— Paul Cezanne

Age

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

— Paul Cezanne

Art

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

— Paul Cezanne

Art

“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”

— Paul Cezanne

Strength

“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”

— Paul Cezanne

Nature

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

— Paul Cezanne

Experience

“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”

— Paul Cezanne

Work

“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.”

— Paul Cezanne

Art