Paul Cezanne

“A puny body weakens the soul.”

“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

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

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

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

“Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.”

“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”

“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”

“Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?”

“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.”

“I am the primitive of the method I have invented.”

“Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.”

“Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.”

“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.”

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

“I have sworn to die painting.”

“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.”

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