I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.