There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

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

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.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.