Soul is as necessary in a painting as body.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.

Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.