It's like Impressionism. They all do it at the Salons. Oh, very discreetly! I too was an Impressionist. I don't conceal the fact. Pissarro had an enormous influence on me. But I wanted to make out of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art of the museums.

p. 164, in: 'What he told me – I. The motif' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)