With an apple I will astonish Paris.
The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture...
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.