Elisefur’s Reviews > If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present > Status Update

“Maybe the implacability of space in Cézanne is always, most deeply, a sign of this severing of time - this discontinuity. Do not do violence to 'usages', the pictures say, but be aware you observe them from an outside, an afterwards.”

a masterclass on looking at painting and art criticism. I have to read it really slowly T_T

“Pattern can state or intimate an order, or a mode of understanding, that ends up containing - quietening - all the tipping and spilling, the insistence on 'being there', the 'coming to life'.”

“Cézanne is saying something about what Form is, humanly, epistemologically - about Form, maybe, as the species' best (though most chilling) work on the world.”

my heroes

'Pissarro a été tres près de la nature, Cézanne put it later? But being near is not the same as taking possession.