You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.