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You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.