John Berger shares new thoughts on Cézanne after viewing the exhibition Cézanne and Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, on view through February 26, 2012. 

Berger writes that “after a lifetime’s companionship with him, the show was a revelation. I forgot about impressionism, cubism, 20th-century art history, modernism, postmodernism – and saw only the story of his love affair, his liaison, with the visible. And I saw it like a diagram, one of those diagrams you find in a booklet of instructions about how to use a new appliance or tool.”