"What are we supposed to do [reacting furiously on art-critic Jules Castagnary who proclaimed the so-called new School…"

"Alas I shall very probably not be able to dine with you [madame Charpentier who frequently had receptions in Paris wh…"

"You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aimin…"

"He [ Richard Wagner ] was very happy but very nervous [Renoir proposed him to paint his portrait].. .In short, I thin…"

".Here [ Guernsey ] people bath among the rocks which serve as cabins, since there's nothing else; nothing is more att…"

"Nature abhors a vacuum, say the physicists. They could complete their axiom by adding that it has no less a horror of…"

"If I was accused of neglecting my art, or sacrificing my ideas for the sake of stupid ambition, then I would understa…"

"One day, while I was painting a landscape in the neighbourhood of Algiers [March 1881] I saw a man approaching who se…"

"I'm struggling with flowering trees [in Spring 1881, shortly after his Algeria trip] and with women and children. I k…"

"[ Bazille..] had not died romantically, galloping over a Delacroix' battlefield.. ..but stupidly, during the retreat,…"