Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.