If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

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

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.