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….

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside..

I paint as if I were Rothschild..

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre..

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill o….

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world..

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder..

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttere….

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often….

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain..

Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest i….

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones..

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals..

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine..

Nature is the best instructor..

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot..

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation..

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me..

I have sworn to die painting..

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience..