I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found….

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness..

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, every….

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every ….

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the l….

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter..

Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours th….

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open..

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought..

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love..

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by ….

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows ….

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must the….

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone..

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I ….

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials..

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of t….

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art..

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to t….

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal ex….

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty..