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Paul Cezanne [1839-1906] French
Rank: 101
Artist (with paintings)
Post-Impressionism


Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 

Art, Nature, Work, Age, Alone, Experience, God, Health, Intelligence, Life, Religion, Strength



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We live in a rainbow of chaos. Life
101
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
102
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. Age
103
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. Art, God
104
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Art, Work
105
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
106
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Nature
107
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Experience, Intelligence
108
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
109
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
110
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
111
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
112
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. Nature
113
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. Work
114
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
115
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
116
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. Strength
117
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
118
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
119
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Nature
120
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Art
121
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
122
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Alone, Art
123
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. Nature
124
With an apple I will astonish Paris. Art
125
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
126
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
201
Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Art
202
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
203
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. Art
204
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
205
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
206
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
207
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Religion
208
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
209
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
210
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
211
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
212
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
213
I allow no one to touch me.
214
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
215
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
216
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
217
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
218
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
219
I want to die painting.
220
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
221
A puny body weakens the soul.
222
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. Health
223
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
224
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
225
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
226
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
301
I have sworn to die painting.
302
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
303
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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