When I start thinking, all is lost.

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

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.