Paul Cezanne

“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”

“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.”

“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”

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

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

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”

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

“A puny body weakens the soul.”

“I am a pupil of Pissarro.”

“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”

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

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

“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.”

“I have sworn to die painting.”

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

“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”

“The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.”