To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again