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.

No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

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.

The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.