The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.