If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

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.