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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

Cizanne: Mont Sainte Victoire

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If ...

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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint t...

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We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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Paul Cézanne

Artist

Born: 1839-01-19

Died: 1906-10-22

Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.More