Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
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.
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.