"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." - Paul Cezanne

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Source note: From his personal notebooks

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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Source note: Documented correspondence

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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective.

Source note: Famous letter that influenced Cubism

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