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.

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

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.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

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