There is no model, there is only color.

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.