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

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere..

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality..

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?.

A puny body weakens the soul..

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest..

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color..

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color..

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private l….

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that ea….

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it..

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front..

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think..

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer….

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predece….

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We….

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain..

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors..

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left..

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life..