199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.