When I start thinking, all is lost.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

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

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.