199 Quotes by Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.