By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.