I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.