Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

What is done in love is done well.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.