Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.