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.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.