There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

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

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

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

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