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

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

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 the primitive of the method I have invented.