Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.