Paul Cezanne

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.