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

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
Paul Cezanne

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
Paul Cezanne