Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

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

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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