Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

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

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

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

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.