I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

I have sworn to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I want to die painting.