Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

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

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