I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Paint the essential character of things.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.