I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

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

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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