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Paul Cézanne
(19 Jan 1839 - 22 Oct 1906)
French painter whose Post-Impressionist works, with very varied styles, greatly influenced 20th century abstract and modern art.
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Science Quotes by Paul Cézanne (1 quote)
See in Nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.
— Paul Cézanne
From the original French, “Traitez la nature par le cylindre, la sphere, le cône”, from Letter (15 Apr 1904) to Emile Bernard. As quoted in Jean-Pierre Mourey, Le Vif de la Sensation (1993), 62. English version in John Rewald, Paul Cézanne: a biography (1967), 199.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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