I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Paint the essential character of things.

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

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

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.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.