It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.