There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."