What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

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

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

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.

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.