Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.