I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.