Nature is the best instructor..

All the theories mess you up inside..

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you..

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

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep dow….

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature..

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction..

I allow no one to touch me..

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the mea….

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot..

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perf….

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

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….

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head..

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears..

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….

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform..

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand..

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant..