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.

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

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

I allow no one to touch me.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.