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

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

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

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

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

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