Paul Cezanne Quotes

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. And that, by some miracle, the language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.

Art is the child of Nature.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

The wonders of nature are endless.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.