I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

... life is too short to do the whole.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.