Monet's cliffs (Etretat) will survive as a prodigious series, as will a hundred others of his canvases... He'll be in the Louvre, for sure, alongside Constable and Turner. Damn it, he's even greater. He painted the iridescence of the earth. He's painted water. Remember those Rouen cathedrals [series of paintings of Monet]... But where everything slips away in these pictures of Monet's, nowadays we must insert a solidity, a framework..

p. 165 in: 'What he told me – I. The motif' - Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906)