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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

If I think, I am lost.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

I have sworn to die painting.