Paul Cezanne

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

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.