All art worthy of the name is religious.

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.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

To arrive is to be in prison.