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| Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| Painting from nature is not copying the object |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| He unfolds, as a painter, that which has not yet been said |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture. |
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| Paul Cezanne |
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| A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. |
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