Paul Cézanne

"Everything we look at disperses and vanishes. doesn't it? Nature is always the same, and yet its appearance is always changing.. .Painting must give us the flavour of nature’s eternity. Everything, yo…"

"You must forgive me for continually coming back to the same thing; but I believe in the logical development of everything we see and feel through the study of nature and turn my attention to technical…"

"Until the war as you know, my life was a mess. I wasted it. It was only at l'Estaque, when I thought things over, that I really understood Pissarro, a painter like myself.. .He was a determined man. I…"

"It's like Impressionism. They all do it at the Salons. Oh, very discreetly! I too was an Impressionist. I don't conceal the fact. Pissarro had an enormous influence on me. But I wanted to make out of …"

"Degas isn't enough of a painter; he doesn't have enough of that! With a little bit of temperament one can manage to be a painter, It's enough to have a sense of art, and that sense is no doubt what th…"

"There is, in a apple, in a head, a culminating point, and this point - in spite of the effect, the tremendous effect: shadow or light, sensations of colour - is always the one nearest to the eye. The …"

"This will be my picture, the one I shall leave behind.. .But the center? Where is the center? I can't find the center.. .Tell me, what shall I group it all around? Ah, Poussin's arabesque! He knew all…"

"Listen, monsieur Vollard, I worked a lot out of doors at. Except for that there was no other event of importance in my life during the years 1870-71. I divided my time between the field and the studio…"