Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

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

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

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

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.