"There are two ways of looking at anything: one is to see it as it is, the other is to see it as it should be."

"I think that art must not be a disagreeable thing. There is enough unhappiness in life to turn one towards the joy."

"It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must be appropriately placed to enhance each other."

"I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture."

"What counts is not the object represented, but the emotion it arouses."