Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.

What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

Do not become the slave of your model.