One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.