Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

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

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.