I have sworn to die painting.

I have sworn to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.