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.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.