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

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

I have sworn to die painting.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.