Make others feel the same way about it. Without their realizing it! That's the meaning of art... Yes, what I'm aiming for is the logical development of what we see and feel when we observe nature; only then I'm concerned with the process, processes being for us no more than simple ways of getting the public to feel what we ourselves are feeling, and of making our point. The great artists we admire have done no more... Shall we have lunch?

p. 160, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)