The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.

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

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.