A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter. — Paul Cezanne
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. — Paul Cezanne
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. — Paul Cezanne
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and — Paul Cezanne
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. — Paul Cezanne
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. — Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. — Paul Cezanne
The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it. — Paul Cezanne
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne