It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

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

I want to die painting.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

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.

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