/lit/ - Literature

>>20149466
think you're confusing your own argument with some of these similes. we must take things on their own merit
our man picasso once said 'It is not what the artist does that counts. But what he is. Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jaques-Emile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false.'
he's not taking you for a ride, he is giving it the blood of his veins and exhausting himself in an effort to win you round