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Yes talking about art is almost always useless

Cezanne in conversation with Joachim Gasquet.

there’s been some doubt expressed as to whether or no Gasquet as entirely accurate in his rendering of Cezanne’s words

torso

t’broil

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detritus

got lots of drawings hanging about which are now getting the attention they deserve

mushroom

Line and modelling do not exist.Drawing is the relationship of contrasts or, simply, the rapport of two tones, white and black.

(also: ‘there are no lines; a shape is defined only by neighbouring forms’)

Paul Cezanne ‘Conversations with Cezanne’ ed. M Doran.

Cezanne’s words are a mine of fascinating principles and paradoxes invariably wrapped in obtuse wit and further obscured by an explosive temperament….

Wonderful to read, occasionally frustrating.

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antipathy for perspective

The whole Renaissance tradition is antipathic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Paul Cézanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this.. ..scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away form the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

George Braque

beginning ~ spiral

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