Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

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

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

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

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

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

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

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

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

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

There is no model, there is only color.