For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

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

Yellow is capable of charming God.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.