Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see..

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art..

Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory o….

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?.

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away..

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things..

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas..

We live in a rainbow of chaos..

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it..

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture o….

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil ….

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture..

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all the….

If I think, I am lost..

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest..

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly wit….

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a ….

Pleasure must be found in study..

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting..

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art..

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings..