It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Right now a moment of time is passing by We must become that moment.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Exactitude is not truth.

I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

What I am after, above all, is expression.

Seeing is in itself a creative act that requires effort.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.