What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

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.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.