Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.