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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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

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

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

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

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

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

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

A puny body weakens the soul.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

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

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

I have sworn to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I want to die painting.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

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