199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture...

One had to immerse oneself in one’s surroundings and intensely study nature or one’s subject to understand how to recreate it.

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

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.

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.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.

Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one’s own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.