I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

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!

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Paint the essential character of things.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

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

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.