You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

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.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

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

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.