My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

The great artist is the simplifier.

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

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.