France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.