Paul Cezanne

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

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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

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

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

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.

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