Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.