With an apple I will astonish Paris.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

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.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.