It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

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

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.