Paul Cézanne Quote
On his painting 'The Bathers':
This will be my picture, the one I shall leave behind... But the center? Where is the center? I can't find the center... Tell me, what shall I group it all around? Ah, Poussin's arabesque! He knew all about that. In the London 'Bacchanal', in the Louvre 'Flora', where does the line of the figures and the landscape begin, where does it finish.... It's all one. There is no center. Personally I would like something like a hole, a ray of light, an invisible sun to keep an eye on my figures, to bathe them, care them, intensify them.... in the middle
p. 78, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)
