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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.

— 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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