Here you are, put this somewhere, on your work table. You must always have this before your eyes.. .It's a new order of painting. Our Renaissance starts here.. .There's a pictorial truth in things. This rose and this white lead us to it by a path hitherto unknown to our sensibility..

— Paul Cézanne Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations (1897)

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Cezanne is referring in this quote to a photo of the painting 'Olypmpia', painted by Manet

Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations (1897)

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