One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

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

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.

... life is too short to do the whole.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.