Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

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

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

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

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.