Art is a harmony paralleling nature’s. What can we say about the fools who tell us: the painter is always inferior to nature! He is parallel to her. Provided he doesn’t intervene deliberately. Don’t misunderstand me-his only aspiration must be to silence… he must be a perfect echo. Then the landscape will be inscribed on his sensitive tablet. When he records it on the canvas, when he externalizes it, technique will certainly come in, but respectfully: for it, too, must be ready to obey, to translate unconsciously… the two parallel texts, nature as seen, nature as felt, the one which is there (be pointed at the green and blue plains), the one which is here (he tapped his forehead) both of which must merge in order to endure, to live a life half human and half divine, the life of art, I tell you – the life of God. - Paul C’ezanne If the models we use are the apparatus seen in a dream, or the recollection of our prehistoric past, is this less part of nature or realism than a cow in a field? I think not. To my mind certain so called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time. - Paul Gottlieb