A puny body weakens the soul.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
I allow no one to touch me.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.