Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.