I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

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

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.