199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

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

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

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

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?