Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one’s sensations.

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

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.

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.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

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

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

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.