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

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

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

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

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.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.