Art is but imitation of nature.

We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.