Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. – Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. – Paul Cezanne
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne
I get in trouble when I say things like, Im attracted to violence. I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. Im just trying to understand where it came from. – Caleb Carr