Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

Paint the essential character of things.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!