I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.