199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us...

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

A puny body weakens the soul.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.

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