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

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

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

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

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.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.