As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.