An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.