Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

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

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.