I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

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

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

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.