The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique -- all these are in the middle.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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

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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

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

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

The contour eludes me.