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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
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Graphic Artist
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature I have represented it.
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Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
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