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

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

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

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

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.