I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

—Paul Cezanne

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

—Paul Cezanne

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

—Paul Cezanne

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

—Paul Cezanne

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

—Paul Cezanne

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

—Plutarch

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

—Robert Delaunay

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

—Pierre Bonnard

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

—Pablo Picasso

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

—Edmond de Goncourt