I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
I want to die painting.
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.