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.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

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.