I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

Yellow is capable of charming God.

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

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.