Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything. - Rilke

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso.

The Impressionist eye is, in short, the most advanced eye in human evolution... - Jules Laforgue (1883)

I did not really see less negative colour, but I felt as if it were an effort towards a less negative colour, the pulsation of a hesitant ray struggling to discharge its light. - Magel Proust.

We were all one group when we first started out. We stood shoulder to shoulder and encourage each other.... - Renoir

Is a mirror of the object, certain details, almost always neglected in drawings from nature .... in the daguerreotype take on a great importance and bring the artist into a full understanding of the objects construction. There, passages of light and shade show their true qualities.... - Morisot

Remember that I have the temperament of a peasant, I am melancholy, harsh and savage in my works. It is only in the long run that I can expect to please, and then only those who have a grain of indulgence. - Camile Pissarro