Paul Cézanne Quote

Let's not eliminate nature. Too bad if we fail. You see, in his 'Dejeuner sur l'herbe', Manet ought to have added - I don't know what - a touch of this nobility, whatever it is in this picture that conveys heaven to our every sense. Look at the golden flow of the tall woman, the other one's back... They are alive and they are divine.

P. 186 in: 'What he told me – II. The Louvre' standing in the Louvre in front of the painting 'Le concert Champêtre', painted by Giorgioni (ca. 1510) - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)