Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
If I think, I am lost.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.