199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.