Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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.