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

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

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

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

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.