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Paul Cezanne

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Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter, draftsperson, lithographer, and printmaker born on January 19, 1839, in Aix-en-Provence.

He received part of his artistic training at the Académie Suisse and worked across several visual disciplines, including painting, drawing, lithography, and printmaking. Associated with the Post-Impressionist movement, Cézanne produced work in the still life genre alongside his other output as a maker of images in multiple media.

Among his notable works are The Card Players and Mont Sainte-Victoire. He died on October 22, 1906, in Aix-en-Provence, the same city where he had been born, and the still life genre remained one of the recurring areas of his practice.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'til we come to understand.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'til we come to understand.
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I’ve been pursuing all my life.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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When a picture isn’t realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
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When a picture isn’t realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art – and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.
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One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art – and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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