For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing ones sensations. – Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. – Paul Cezanne
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing ones sensations. – 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
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,