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

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

- Paul Cezanne

Creativity

"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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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

- Leonardo DaVinci

Inspiration

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."

- Socrates

Inspiration

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."

- Wilbur Wright

Inspiration

"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."

- Charles A. Lindbergh

Inspiration

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Inspiration