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.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.