Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

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.

Love is something eternal.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.