Paul Cezanne

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God…

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

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience…

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

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation…

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations…

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted…

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all…

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your…

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

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting…

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

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to…

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to…

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest…