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

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

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.

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

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

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.