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.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate....

It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.

Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.