» Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
» I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
» There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
» I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
» It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
» Conscience is a man's compass.
» What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
» A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
» Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
» The best way to know God is to love many things.