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.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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

I allow no one to touch me.