And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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

There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.