Cézanne's remark reminds us that Pissarro was not only endowed with the gift of seeing, but with the rarer ability to make other artists see for themselves: Cézanne, Gauguin and von Gogh bear witness to the effectiveness of Pissarro as a teacher, or rather, one whose very presence in the vincinity of the chosen motif might serve as a catalyst, a liberating agent for the act of visual response, freed from both traditional poncif and subjective authority. (artnews.com)
He is the Liberator par excellence whose very presence makes persons sell all that they have and follow him [ibid., pp. 210, 213]. (religion-online.org)
Cassavetes befriends his African - American co-worker Sydney Poitier, whose very presence enrages the bigoted Warden. (rottentomatoes.com)