One can never study nature too much and too hard
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.
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.