I will not live without love.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

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!!!

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.