The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.