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POSTIMPRESSIONISM
PAUL CEZANNE:
Excerpts from the Letters
MUSEUMS
To his son Paul, Aix, 26 September 1906 (#197, p. 268)
He [Charles Camoin] showed me a photograph of a figure by the unfortunate Emile Bernard; We are agreed on this point, namely that he is an intellectual engorged by the memory of the museums, but who does not look at nature enough, and that is the great thing, to make oneself free of the school and indeed of all schools. --So that Pissarro Was not mistaken, though he Went a little too far, When he said that all the necropoles of art should be burned.
NATURE THE BASIS OF HIS ART
To Paul, Aix, I3 October 1906 (#200, p. 271)
I must carry on. I simply must produce after nature.-Sketches, pictures, if I Were to do any, would he merely constructions after [nature], based on method, sensations, and developments suggested by the model, but I always say the same thing.
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