It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

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.

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

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.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.