It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

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