Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

If I think, I am lost.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.