People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.