French - Artist | January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Paul Cezanne
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I paint as if I were Rothschild.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
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Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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