I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.