1. “Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flower”
2. “I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
3. “I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy.”
4. “I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.”
5. “While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.”
6. “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”
7. “I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
8. “My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”
9. “A good impression is lost so quickly.”
10. “If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!”
11. “I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.”
12. “It is better to have done something than too have been someone.”
13. “Th richness I achieve comes from nature the source of my inspiration.”
14. “My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.”
15. “I had so much fire in me and so many plans.”
16. “It is a tragedy that we live in a word where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.”
17. “One can do something if one can see and understand it.”
18. “I’ve only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.”
19. “Everything changes, even stone.”
20. “I can only draw what I see.”
21. “My life has been nothing but a failure.”
22. “People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.”
23. “No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is ure of his method and composition.”
24. “It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.”
25. “Light is the most important person in the picture.”
26. “The point is to know how to use the colors, the choice of which is, when all’s said and done, a matter of habit.”
27. “I never draw except with brush and paint.”
28. “It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
29. “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.”
30. “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”
