You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.