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

You have first to experience what you want to express.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.