Striving for Certainty

"These swings between boldness and mistrust, intimacy and isolation led him to stay at home, keep himself concealed, becoming a sort of hermit, whose passion for the world directed every brushstroke, changed each creation into an expression of tenderness, which he dismissed writing: 'a vague sense of apprehension persists.'" -Cezanne's Seclusion by Stephen Dobyns.