"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
-Paul Cezanne
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"The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it."
-Paul Cezanne
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"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
-Paul Cezanne
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"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."
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"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature."
-Paul Cezanne
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"We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature."
-Paul Cezanne
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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