To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.