To have that under one's eyes and not paint it is stupid. - Jules Dupré

It will be hard to fill the place of the painter [ Corot ]; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man.

You think then, that I know my profession? Why, my poor fellow; if I had nothing more to find out and to learn I could not paint any longer.

What man touches, he can become master of, but to paint that sky [French Riviera] without clouds, that well of light, is as hopeless a task as it would be to sound its depths.