A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.