The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.