"My passion has been to stay in contact with nature, and to be concerned with nothing but the truth."

"I'm absolutely furious. I want to break something."

"I never had one [a studio] and personally I don't understand why would want to shut themselves up in some room. Maybe for drawing, sure, but not for painting."

"Ah, gentlemen, I do not receive guests when I'm working, indeed. When I work, if I am interrupted, I lose all inspiration; I am lost. You understand, I'm chasing a band of colour."

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."