You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.- Paul Cezanne
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
With a painter's temperament, all that is needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Two sittings a day of my models and I am totally exhausted.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
The world doesn't understand me and I do not understand the world, that is why I have withdrawn from it.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
