country bumpkin*

Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885-1895

"He was my one and only master ... he was the father of us all."
- Pablo Picasso [1881-1973] on Paul Cézanne [1839-1906] who painted the land that gave birth to him.

* because he laid paint by the trowel load

got better with age

Self-Portrait with a Beret painted when Cézanne was 59 years old.

Reflecting on aging, writer John Updike [born 1932] pointed to Paul Cézanne [1839-1906] who he thinks "matured wonderfully; he was very awkward in the beginning, but slowly he became a beautiful painter." 

subject and artist both annoyed Google not yet invented

Portrait of Gustave Geoffroy, 1895

"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."
- Paul Cézanne [1839-1906]