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

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I want to die painting.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

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.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.