...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

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

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.