The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

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

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

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.

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.