3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.