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

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.