"What is one to think of those fools……" — Paul Cezanne
"What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
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- If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
- Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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- The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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