I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is. ...let us perservere as far as we can rather today than tomorrow.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.