There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

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

If I think, everything is lost.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.