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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

I allow no one to touch me.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Paul Cezanne