Paul Cezanne had to wait longer than all his fellow artists for recognition, send paintings to the official Salon year after year without success, endure criticism, defending the right to be himself. The son of a miser banker, he was forced to exist in miserable poverty for meager maintenance and for many years was afraid to admit to his father that he had a wife and a son, and having received a large inheritance, he did not betray himself. Always overgrown and shaggy, in his dragged clothes, he lived as a hermit, could not stand it when they touched him, managed to restore everyone against himself and seemed to feel good, only saying nasty things to others.