List of Paul Cezanne Quotes

I Am Still Searching For The Expression Of Those Confused Sensations That We Bring With Us At Birth.

One Had To Immerse Oneself In One's Surroundings And Intensely Study Nature Or One's Subject To Understand How To Recreate It.

Talks On Art Are Almost Useless. The Work Which Goes To Bring Progress In One's Own Subject Is Sufficient Compensation For The Incomprehension Of Imbeciles.

I Lack The Magnificent Richness Of Color That Animates Nature.

The Artist Must Scorn All Judgment That Is Not Based On An Intelligent Observation Of Character. He Must Beware Of The Literary Spirit Which So Often Causes A Painting To Deviate From Its True Path - The Concrete Study Of Nature - To Lose Itself All Too Long In Intangible Speculations.

The Transposition That A Painter Makes With An Original Vision Gives To The Representation Of Nature A New Interest.

I Paint As If I Were Rothschild.

I Have Nothing To Hide In Art. The Initial Force Alone Can Bring Anyone To The End He Must Attain.

My Nervous System Is Very Much Weakened - Nothing But Painting In Oil Can Keep Me Going.

Two Sittings A Day Of My Models And I'm Totally Exhausted.

One Must See One's Model Correctly And Experience It In The Right Way; And Furthermore Express Oneself Forcibly And With Distinction.

Studying The Model And Realizing It Is Sometimes Very Slow In Coming For The Artist.