Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

What is done in love is done well.

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.