11 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne was a French painter. He was born into a family of ten children. In 1857 he moved to Aix-en-Provence, where he met Paul Signac, who introduced him to Impressionism and helped him develop a personal style. His earliest watercolors depicted modern life and the people of his native city, Aix Read more

In 1861 he began a career as an art student in Paris, where he studied with Gustave Courbet and Charles-François Daubigny.

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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish. Paul Cezanne
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We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. Paul Cezanne
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. Paul Cezanne
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne
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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. Paul Cezanne
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. Paul Cezanne
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne
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With an apple I will astonish Paris. Paul Cezanne