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

— Paul Cézanne Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations (1897)

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

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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

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 was very pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight could not be reproduced; it had to be represented by something else.. ..by colour.

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