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

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

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.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.