When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

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

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

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

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.