The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself..

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen..

Pleasure must be found in study..

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth..

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest..

I am the primitive of the method I have invented..

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature..

We live in a rainbow of chaos..

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors..

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment….

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a ….

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think..

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine..

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary….

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing..

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color..

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front..

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?.

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator..

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it..

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil ….