"X0517"  30X24 Inches  Acrylic on board

There is no painter of consequence who during the last few years has not adopted or pondered over some one of the theories advanced by the Impressionists, and notably that of the open air which influences all modern artistic thought.
Stephane Mallarme
Mallarme, "Impressionists and Edouard Manet", p. 32

As if I don't know Cezanne! He was my one and only master. Don't you think I've looked at his paintings? I spent years studying them, Cezanne. He was like the father of us all. He was the one who protected us.
Pablo Picasso, 1943
Brassai, Conversations With Picasso, p. 107

Every consquential contribution to Part moderne has been made by revolutionary minds.
Robert Motherwell, 1944
Terenzio, Writings of Robert Motherwell, p. 35.