 We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. |
| Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. |
| With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. |
| 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. |
| The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. |
| I have sworn to die painting. |
| I want to die painting. |
| The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. |
| There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. |
| The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. |
| It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. |
| I am a pupil of Pissarro. |
| I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. |
| For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. |
| 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. |
| Art is a harmony parallel with nature. |
