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

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

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

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

If I think, I am lost.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.