That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

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

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.