One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

If I think, I am lost.

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

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

I want to die painting.