Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything... A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.... but no program, no instruction in painting.... drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting – the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting..

p. 124, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)