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.

— Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne Quotes

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

— Paul Cézanne

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

— Paul Cézanne

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

— Paul Cézanne

Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.

— Paul Cézanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

— Paul Cézanne

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

— Paul Cézanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cézanne

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.

— Paul Cézanne

Nature is the best instructor.

— Paul Cézanne

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos...

— Paul Cézanne

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one’s model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

— Paul Cézanne

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

— Paul Cézanne

All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

— Paul Cézanne

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

— Paul Cézanne

The contour eludes me.

— Paul Cézanne

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

— Paul Cézanne

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

— Paul Cézanne

When a picture isn’t realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

— Paul Cézanne

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

— Paul Cézanne

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

— Paul Cézanne
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