It's with my brush that I make love.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.