...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.
Art is an escape from reality.
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
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.