Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

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.