I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Drawing is the root of everything.

For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

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