Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

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

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

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.