I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

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

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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

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