Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.