Conscience is a man's compass.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

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.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words