Paul Cézanne

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

“The world doesn't understand me, and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”

“I wanted to make of impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums.”

“Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.”

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or a flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must create a world of his own.”

“The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary.”

“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”

“To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.”

“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.”

“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”

“I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.”

“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”

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

“The sun is not to be reproduced, but to be represented by something else - by color.”