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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 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.

To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

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

Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations (1897)

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.

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