I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.