Paul Cezanne Quotes

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
Paul Cezanne

Good, Keep, Company

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Paul Cezanne

Life, Age, Health

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

Work, System, Nervous

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
Paul Cezanne

Two, Exhausted, Models

A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne

Soul, Body, Weakens

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

Nature, Artist, Seen

I am a pupil of Pissarro.
Paul Cezanne

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

Art, Friend, Painting

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne

Age, Religion, Find

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Paul Cezanne

Nothing, Though, Knew

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

Art, Alone, End

I have sworn to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

Die, Painting, Sworn

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne

Nature, Color, Lack

I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Paul Cezanne

Grateful, Public

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

Art, Heart, Pure

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Paul Cezanne

Life, Succeed, Earth

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
Paul Cezanne

Time, Thinking, Impossible

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
Paul Cezanne

Past, Oneself, Link

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Paul Cezanne

Through, Study, Teach

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
Paul Cezanne

Soul, Changes, Sugar

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

Nature, Everything, Pure

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne

Two, Light, Less

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Paul Cezanne

Makes, Artist, Concrete

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: January 19, 1839

Died: October 22, 1906

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