" Is It possible for there to be a true image of nature? And how would we know that it is the true one? Doesn't every painter formulate a different one from his fellow artists? Goya said 'nature has neither color nor line'. Are we not taken in by illusions, even in the realm of the senses? And are our senses themselves sound enough or perfect enough to allow us to enter in to contact with what you call nature without making one single mistake?"

A conversation with Cezanne by Emile Barnard