The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

With an apple, I will astonish Paris.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

There is no model, there is only colour.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

All the theories mess you up inside.

If I think, everything is lost.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling block of the uncertain.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.