Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

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

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

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.