Cezanne Quotes
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.
Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.
There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.
Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p