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.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

... life is too short to do the whole.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.