+ The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

+ For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

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

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

+ When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

+ Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.

+ I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

+ What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature.

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

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

+ We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

+ 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 life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.