Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

I allow no one to touch me.

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

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.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.