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.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

I have sworn to die painting.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

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