All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.