I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.