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.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

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

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.