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Paul Cézanne on Art

1839–1906 France

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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Everybody's going crazy over the Impressionists; what art needs is a Poussin made over according to nature. There you have it in a nutshell.

I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy.

It's like Impressionism. They all do it at the Salons. Oh, very discreetly! I too was an Impressionist. I don't conceal the fact. Pissarro had an enormous influence on me. But I wanted to make out of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art of the museums.

Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations (1897)

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