"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."

"I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors that it has cost."

"A chef doesn't have to always ask for approval and to ask [others] people to taste the plates that he prepares. If you must trouble yourself with the public, painting, its art, what one has to say, on…"

"My purpose is to render my emotion."

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth, when all the world is new to it."