Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

I want to die painting.

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

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.