The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

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.

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

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.