The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.