Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

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

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.