I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
When I start thinking, all is lost.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
I paint as if I were Rothschild.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.