PAUL CEZANNE

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

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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

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.

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

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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I want to die painting.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

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

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

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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