Painting is by nature a luminous language.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

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.

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

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.