Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.

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"Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation."

- Paul Cezanne

Inspiration

"In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her."

- Paul Cezanne

Learning

"If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain."

- Paul Cezanne

Strength

"Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand."

- Paul Cezanne

Reflection

"If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul."

- Paul Cezanne

Philosophy

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- Maya Angelou

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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