Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

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

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

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too