Cezanne would never have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques Emile Blanche, even if the apple he painted had been ten times as beautiful. The rest is a sham. But common sense always gets away with it. I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.
Truth is a lie.
It's Art that kills us. People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.