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“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”
— Paul Cezanne
“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.”
— Paul Cezanne
“You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.”
— Paul Cezanne
“A puny body weakens the soul.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I am a pupil of Pissarro.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I have sworn to die painting.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I paint as if I were Rothschild.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I want to die painting.”
— Paul Cezanne
“I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”
— Paul Cezanne
“Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?”
— Paul Cezanne
“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”
— Paul Cezanne
“One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.”
— Paul Cezanne
“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.”
— Paul Cezanne
“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”
— Paul Cezanne
“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.”
— Paul Cezanne
“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.”
— Paul Cezanne
“With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.”
— Paul Cezanne
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