Who said “He [Cézanne] reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning,…”?

“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”

“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”

“I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.”

“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”

“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”

“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.”

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.”

“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”

“Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.”