199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Nature is the best instructor.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

The contour eludes me.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.