Anyone who wants to paint should read Bacon. He defined the artists as homo additus naturae... Bacon had the right idea, but listen Monsieur Vollard, speaking of nature, the English philosopher, [Bacon] didn't for-see our open-air school, nor that other calamity which has followed close upon its heels: open-air indoors.

In: a conversation with Vollard in museum The Luxembourg, Paris 1897 - standing before the 'Olympia' of Manet, as quoted in Cézanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 36