We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.