With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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.

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

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

There is no model, there is only color.