Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

It is actually okay to stop trying to solve the problem of feeling bad. In fact it is wise because our habitual ways of solving problems almost invariably wind up making things worse.

Without forgiveness, there is no healing.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

For me, music begins where words end.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Well you know for me, the action is the juice.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.