There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.