The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

A certain blue enters your soul