Exactitude is not truth.

Exactitude is not truth.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.