If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.