I still work with difficulty, but I seem to get along. That is the important thing to me. Sensations form the foundation of my work, and they are imperishable, I think. Moreover, I am getting rid of that devil who, as you know, used to stand behind me and forced me at will to 'imitate'; he's not even dangerous any more.

In 1906, one week before Cézanne died. In: his last letter to his son Paul, Aix, 15 October 1906, as quoted in Cézanne, Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 112 - after 1900