You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

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

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must therefore intervene as little as possible, so as not to cause photography to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses, notwithstanding its defects.

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.