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January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906

Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.

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Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn’t count, but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..

p. 124 (Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations)

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We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Paul Cézanne

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Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing sensations.

Paul Cézanne
— p. 46 (Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations)

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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

Paul Cézanne
— Fumées dans la campagne, Edmonmd Jaloux, p. 119 (note 2)

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Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole’s everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

Paul Cézanne
— p. 68 (Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations)

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January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906

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