Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

If I think, everything is lost.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

When I start thinking, all is lost.