D. H. Lawrence - A Maçã de Cézanne... E Eu

"Cézanne's great effort
was to push the apple away
and let it live its own life.

When [Cézanne] said to his models: 'Be an apple! Be an apple!', he expressed what is the prologue to the fall; not only that of idealists, both Jesuits and Christians, but that of the collapse of our entire form of consciousness, replacing it with another. If human beings were essentially an apple, as they were for Cézanne, we would be heading towards a new world of men: a world with very little to say, with..."