The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

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

It's with my brush that I make love.

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.

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

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

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