Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?