Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.