I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven..

Never lose the first impression which has moved you..

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of y….

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; yo….

If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to ….

Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that firs….

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome..

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth….

Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into ….

I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up v….

It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the li….

I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these ar….

Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitat….

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind..

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without preju….

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them..

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error....

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convicti….

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art..

Art is nature as seen through a temperament..