There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

If you end up falling in love with someone, it's because of them. If you end up hating someone, it's because of you.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.