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

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.