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.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

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

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

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.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.