I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne More Quotes by Paul Cezanne More Quotes From Paul Cezanne With an apple I will astonish Paris. Paul Cezanne applesparisart The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life. Paul Cezanne lazinesssunfriendship It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne blankcanvasartist One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. Paul Cezanne artistaddpast The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. Paul Cezanne painterpaintingartist 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. Paul Cezanne colorbrainart 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. Paul Cezanne techniquefeelingsart I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration. Paul Cezanne strongeregoopinion Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know. Paul Cezanne madartistthinking There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones. Paul Cezanne tonelightdark An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. Paul Cezanne artistfeelingsart We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne rainbowdreamlove I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne artistagebirthday The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. Paul Cezanne landscapeconsciousnessthinking I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else. Paul Cezanne satisfiedsatisfactionsun You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears. Paul Cezanne disappearifswant The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos. Paul Cezanne landscapechaosthinking Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. Paul Cezanne drawinggivingmean Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head. Paul Cezanne controlledpaintingheart Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. Paul Cezanne conescylindersspheres
