I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.