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

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

I will not live without love.

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.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.