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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
Paul Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
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See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
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