I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

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

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.

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

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.