199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

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

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

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I have sworn to die painting.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.