It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
