Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

I wish they would take me as I am.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

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