I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

...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?

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

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