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PAUL CEZANNE:
Excerpts from the Letters
PAINTING PROM NATURE
To Emile Zola, [ca. 19 October 1866]
But you know all pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as the
things done outside. When out-of-door scenes are represented, the contrasts
between the figures and the ground are astounding and the landscape is magnificent.
I see some superb things and I shall have to make up my mind only to do things
out-of-doors.
I have already spoken to you about a picture I want to attempt; it will
represent Marion and Valabregue setting out to look for a motif (the landscape
motif of course). The sketch which Guillemet considers good and which I did after
nature makes everything else seem bad. I feel sure that all the pictures by the old
masters representing things out-of-doors have only been done hesitatingly, for
they do not seem to me to have the true and above all the original aspect lent by
nature.
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