Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.