You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.