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

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.