An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

I allow no one to touch me.