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

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.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

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

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

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 have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.