Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 2

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

If I think, everything is lost.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

A puny body weakens the soul.

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.

There is no model, there is only color.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

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

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

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

When I start thinking, all is lost.

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

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.