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

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.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

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.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.