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

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

- Paul Cezanne

Inspiration

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

- Paul Cezanne

Creativity

"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

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

Learning

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

Learning