I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

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.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

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

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?