It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.