I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
The real subject of every painting is light.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.