The first took place near Fère Champenoise on September 8th; the second near Sézanne on September 9th; the third near Lassigny about October 15th.
Both Whitman and Cézanne stand together in the name of one common purpose, freedom from characteristics not one's own.
It was the acutely sensitive eye of Cézanne that taught him to register so ably the minor and major variations of his theme.
Sight was almost science with Cézanne as it was passion.
That is why we find Cézanne working incessantly to create an art which would achieve a union of impressionism and an art like the Louvre, as he is said to have characterized it for himself.
These are the geniuses who have done most for these two arts of the present time, it is Whitman and Cézanne who have clarified the sleeping eye and withheld it from being totally blinded, from the onslaughts of jaded tradition.
I could not say how my conversion to Cézanne began.
But my notion about Cézanne was that he was a fond old man who distracted himself by daubing.
The best still-life studies of Cézanne seem to me to have the grandiose quality of epics.
Illustration] To the north of Sézanne you will see a region known as the Marshes of St. Gond.
In the plateau to the north of Sézanne is a basin of clay, ten miles long from east to west, and varying in breadth from one to two miles.
Round about Sézanne we find rolling downs, and to the north of it the extensive marsh of St. Gond.
It seems strange in the presence of a Cézanne picture to realise that he, too, suffered his little term of lyric madness and wrestled with huge mythologic themes--giant men carrying off monstrous women.
Paul Cézanne bitterly resented the liberty taken by his old school friend Zola.
A painter by compulsion, a contemplative rather than a creative temperament, a fumbler and seeker, nevertheless Paul Cézanne has formed a school, has left a considerable body of work.
Although Cézanne lived like a bachelor, his surviving sister saw that his household was comfortable.
The pair became inseparable; they fought for naturalism, and it was to Cézanne that Zola dedicated his Salons which are now to be found in a volume of essays on art and literature bearing the soothing title of Mes Haines.
Between Cézanne and another Tate Gallery, what lies in store for the human spirit?
But science will neither make nor satisfy an artist: and perhaps Cézanne saw what the great Impressionists could not see, that though they were still painting exquisite pictures their theories had led art into a cul de sac.
The difference between "architectural design" and what I call "imposed design" will be obvious to anyone who compares a picture by Cézanne with a picture by Whistler.
For how many years after the maturity of Cézanne will painters continue to produce chromophotographs?
It was for this Cézanne felt the emotion he spent his life in expressing.
Every great artist has seen landscape as an end in itself--as pure form, that is to say; Cézanne has made a generation of artists feel that compared with its significance as an end in itself all else about a landscape is negligible.
What the future will owe to Cézanne we cannot guess: what contemporary art owes to him it would be hard to compute.
Cézanne is one of the greatest colourists that ever lived; Henri-Matisse is a great colourist.
They reached Sézanne hours before Marmont's advance, long before the cavalry even.
If the young aide could find something to eat and get a few hours' sleep, he could be at Sézanne before the Emperor arrived and his information would be ready in the very nick of time.
Marmont's troops, starting out at the same time he had taken his departure, would barely have reached Sézanne by this time, so much more slowly did an army move than a single person.
I will find out what division this is in front of us, and I will go back along the road to the eastward and ascertain where the other divisions are, and by nightfall I will return to Sézanne to report to the Emperor.
Everything eatable and drinkable in Sézanne had vanished as a green field before a swarm of locusts when Marmont's division had come through some hours before.
He hoped the man would have sense enough to go immediately to Sézanne and report the situation.
I shall be at Sézanne the day after to-morrow night.
A charm of rude simplicity and sincerity can be found in these works in which Cézanne employs only just the means which are indispensable for his end.
Cézanne is a conscientious painter without skill, intensely absorbed in rendering what he sees, and his strong and tenacious attention has sometimes succeeded in finding beauty.
A very real affinity exists, too, between Paul Gauguin, who was a friend and to a certain extent the master of Van Gogh, and Cézanne and Renoir.
We knew well enough that a feeble and incompetent disciple of Cézanne was just as worthless as a feeble and incompetent disciple of anyone else--but, then, was our particular postulant so feeble after all?
But it is true that there is hardly one modern artist of importance to whom Cézanne is not father or grandfather, and that no other influence is comparable with his.
All of Cézanne went into his painting; only now and then a drop escaped that voracious funnel and splashed on to life.
Taking the thing at its roughest and simplest, one may say that the influence of Cézanne during the last seventeen years has manifested itself most obviously in two characteristics--Directness and what is called Distortion.
Of course, he has been influenced by Cézanne and the modern Frenchmen.
Modigliani owed something to Cézanne and a great deal to Picasso: he was no doctrinaire: towards the end he became the slave of a formula of his own devising--but that is another matter.
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