I paint as if I were Rothschild.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

I allow no one to touch me.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

I have sworn to die painting.

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