A child needs freedom within limits.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.