The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.