The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.