If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

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