There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.