I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

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

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Art is but imitation of nature.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.