Raoul Dufy

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.