It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

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.