Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Quote by Paul Cezanne

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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let...

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let...

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

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

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

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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

A puny body weakens the soul.

A puny body weakens the soul.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

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

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

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

I want to die painting.

I want to die painting.

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

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

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in...

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in...

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

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

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God...

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God...

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place,...

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place,...

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've...

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've...

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

I allow no one to touch me.

I allow no one to touch me.