There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

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.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.