I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.