How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?