All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

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