Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do..

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my w….

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flow….

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable..

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas ….

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right..

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art..

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat..

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness..

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential..

It's with my brush that I make love..

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph..

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter ….

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to w….

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all o….

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composin….

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them..

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time..

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if t….

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished..

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly..