It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

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

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.

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