For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm -- but that's a lie.... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too