The Birth of Tragedy |
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived … I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..." (Walden, 1854). |
He (Cezanne) had too many things to bring out of his imagination, things of which Impressionism was innocent. He readily admitted that it was worth while thus to analyze patiently and completely the weft of color sensations which nature spreads for the practiced eye, but his imagination went beyond and behind that, towards profounder and less evident realities. He saw always, however dimly, behind this veil an architecture and a logic which appealed to his most intimate feelings. Reality, no doubt, lay always behind this veil of color, but it was different, more solid, more dense, in closer relation to the needs of the spirit.
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"Cezanne: a Study of His Development
by Fry, Roger
