It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

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

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!