I'll start with small things.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.