Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted..

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day..

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

To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working..

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too.

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….

I have sworn to die painting..

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in….

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest..

All my compatriots are asses compared to me..

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effec….

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

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

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 model, there is only color..

Chatter about art is almost always useless..

Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imb….

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public..

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that ….

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….

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling..