I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

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.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

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