When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

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

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.