You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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

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

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

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.