Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

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

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

We are having wind and rain here, and I am very glad not to be alone. I work from memory on bad days, and that would not do if I were alone.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?