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