I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.