When I Start Thinking, All Is Lost.

For An Impressionist To Paint From Nature Is Not To Paint The Subject, But To Realize Sensations.

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.

You Must Think. The Eye Is Not Enough; It Needs To Think As Well.

I Have Not Tried To Reproduce Nature; I Have Represented It.

What I Am Trying To Translate To You Is More Mysterious, It Is Entwined In The Very Roots Of Being, In The Implacable Source Of Sensations.