Paul Cezanne

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.