But there is better. Simplicity, being direct. Everything else is just a game, just building castles in the sky... Basically I don't think of anything when I paint. I see colours. I strive with joy to convey them on to my canvas just as I see them. They arrange themselves as they choose, any old way. Sometimes that makes a picture. I'm brainless animal. Very content if I could be just that.

p. 158-159, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)