The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

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

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.