The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.