“There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.” Quote by Paul Cezanne
“To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.” EyeProgressAchieveContact Author:Paul Cezanne
“I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.” SunSatisfactionSatisfiedInstanceCopies Author:Paul Cezanne
“I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.” StillsExpressionBirthConfusedSensations Author:Paul Cezanne
“One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.” WayModelsOneselfDistinctionRight Way Author:Paul Cezanne
“One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.” ArtCan DoHorrorGood ThingsSufficientBourgeois Author:Paul Cezanne
“My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.” PaintingSurvivalOilNervousNervous System Author:Paul Cezanne
“Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?” SchoolTraditionEndlessBunchFormulasHonoredJuiceTobaccoDrearyCarrotsBanality Author:Paul Cezanne
“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.” ArtUnderstandingProgressSubjectsUselessSufficientCompensationImbecilesIncomprehension Author:Paul Cezanne