Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.