“I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted by it one time. When I was painting at Céret and at Cagnes [1919, and from 1923]. I yielded to its influence in spite of myself, and the results were not entirely banal. But then... Céret itself is anything but banal. There is so much foreshortening in the landscape that, for that very reason, a picture may seem to have been painted in some specific style”

— Chaim Soutine

quote in 1927
Source: Life with the painters of La Ruche, Vorobëv Marevna, Macmillan, New York, 1972, p. 156

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