It is absurd to look for perfection.

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

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

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.

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

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

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