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.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

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