As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.

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 would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.