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

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

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

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