There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other..

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships..

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion..

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature..

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest..

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation..

Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttere….

I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance….

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos..

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the ….

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution..

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre..

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations..

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world..

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones..

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless t….

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it..

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also..

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest..

I want to die painting..

I wish to die painting..