29 Paul Cezanne Quotes for You to Enjoy

Paul Cezanne

French Artist

Born: Jan 19, 1839

Died: Oct 22, 1906

Art Me Nature Painting Will You

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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne

Fine Blank Blank Canvas Terrible Front Canvas Stand

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

Day Will Single Revolution Carrot Observed Coming Off Set

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne

Art Personality Seductive About Most Himself Artist Thing

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

Light Brilliant Relation Shadow Only Colour Less Tones Two

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne

Art Nature Harmony Parallel

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. Paul Cezanne

Art Critic Lies Salvation Paint

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. Paul Cezanne

Good Go Louvre Good Company Company Keep

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. Paul Cezanne

Strength Own Awareness Our Makes Modest Us

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. Paul Cezanne

Gives Individuality Makes Concrete Artist Them Things

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Paul Cezanne

Strong Isolation Uncertain

I allow no one to touch me. Paul Cezanne

Me Touch Allow No-One

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne

Nature Pure Everything Distinct Drawing Colour Coloured Abstraction

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

Mind Aid Other Eye Them Should Painter Each Things Two

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

You Painting Difficult Think Always Got

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

Nature Subject Impressionist Sensations Realize Paint

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

Art Painting More Am Friend Than Producer

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted. Paul Cezanne

Day Exhausted Totally Models Two

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. Paul Cezanne

Time Impossible Thinking Emotion Come Us Now Away

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. Paul Cezanne

Day Soul Every Day People Every Think Sugar Changes How

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

Pure Clear French Verse Landscape

A puny body weakens the soul. Paul Cezanne

Soul Weakens Puny Body

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