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

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

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

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

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

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.