If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
A puny body weakens the soul.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
I have sworn to die painting.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
