The essay presents some impressions produced by a Paul Cézanne's picture. Authentic connections are contagious; they do not work through erudition. When by the end to the Nineteenth Century Cézanne's works start to emerge, nobody, not even himself, knew what it was all about. The first ones to have a glimpse of a mutation were some artists, painters, poets, writers, then slowly some critics joined them, and at last a few philosophers.
Paul Cézanne; contagion; art; painting
