Simple True Sentences

In A Moveable Feast Hemingway says:

"I was learning something from the painting of Cezanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret."
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. New York, Scribner, 1964.

I think it is very interesting to speculate about what Hemingway really learned from Cezanne. Maybe he learned that writing simple, true sentences was enough to make a beautiful piece of art. He also said that Cezanne taught him a lot about creating a "verbal landscape." Hemingway was trying to create with words what Cezanne created with paint, but I wonder who had the harder job of it. I wonder if Hemingway ever felt that he achieved the same effect that Cezanne did. Both men were trying to interpret their surroundings in a clear way. However, that did not always mean that they were trying to depict exact reality. It would be enlightening to ask each man what his true aim was. Maybe we would be in for a few surprises.