The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

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.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.