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

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

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.