We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
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.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
I allow no one to touch me.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
I want to die painting.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
I have sworn to die painting.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
