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.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.