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.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

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

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

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