One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

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

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.