Paul Cézanne

[ Remark to Ambroise Vollard :] Monet is only an eye, but my God what an eye!

The day was not far off when one solitary, original carrot [depicted in a painting] might be pregnant with revolution!

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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