A biography for Paul Cezannehasn’t been written yet.
“I want to die painting.”
“I am a pupil of Pissarro.”
“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
“I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.”
“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
“With an apple I will astonish Paris.”
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
“I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.”
“With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.”
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”