"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings..." — Paul Cezanne

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.