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.

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

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.

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.

The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

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