Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.