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Famous Paul Cezanne Quotes
“Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”
“It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”
“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.”
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
“I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.”
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
“One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.”
“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.”
“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”