Elisefur’s Reviews > If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present > Status Update

“Maybe the implacability of space in Cézanne is always, most deeply, a sign of this severing of time - this discontinuity. Do not do violence to 'usages', the pictures say, but be aware you observe them from an outside, an afterwards.”

a masterclass on looking at painting and art criticism. I have to read it really slowly T_T

“Pattern can state or intimate an order, or a mode of understanding, that ends up containing - quietening - all the tipping and spilling, the insistence on 'being there', the 'coming to life'.”

“Cézanne is saying something about what Form is, humanly, epistemologically - about Form, maybe, as the species' best (though most chilling) work on the world.”

my heroes

“Modernity is loss of world. Cézanne is the painter who makes that cliché draw blood. “