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

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

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.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.