Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

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.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

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