Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.

The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

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.