"Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new……" — Clive Bell

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• My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is… — Bob Dylan
• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did… — Willem de Kooning
• Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler
• In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie. — Bob Dylan
• What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has… — Roy Lichtenstein
• The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield
• What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop… — Ian Hornak
• To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting. — Henri Matisse
• If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape,… — Robert Motherwell
• Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest… — Mary Cassatt
• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. — Walter Sickert

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