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

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'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.

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.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

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