People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Two sittings a day of my models and I’m totally exhausted.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

A puny body weakens the soul.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.