While other Premier League managers bleat on about «philosophy» and «intensity» - words that
rarely ever actually have any meaning in the context they are
used by them - the West Ham United coach is always frank and to the point with the media and
public.
Even then, it had little impact on the general
public, although it impressed numerous contemporaries, and
by 1900 (partly due to the fact that his work was so
rarely seen) he had acquired a legendary reputation among members of the Parisian avant - garde - notably Picasso, who
used Cezanne's style of Post-Impressionist painting as a key building block in the development of Cubism.