I want to die painting.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

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

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

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