 The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. |
| Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. |
| Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. |
| I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. |
| I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. |
| An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. |
| My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. |
| One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. |
| With an apple I will astonish Paris. |
| Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. |
| I paint as if I were Rothschild. |
| We live in a rainbow of chaos. |
| Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. |
| A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. |
| I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. |
| Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. |
| Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? |
| Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. |
| The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it. |
| If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. |
