The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

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

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

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