A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
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'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.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 could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Paul Cezanne

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.
Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne

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

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