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.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.