I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

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.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

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

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.