199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

I allow no one to touch me.