It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

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.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.