You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

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

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.