God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.