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

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

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

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.