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.

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!