Quotes by Paul Cezanne

“Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.”

“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.”

“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”

“Right now a moment 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.”

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”

“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”

“For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations”

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

“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing ones sensations.”

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

Genius is the ability to renew ones emotions in daily experience.

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

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.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.