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

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

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.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.