French - Artist | January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I want to die painting.
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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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