 As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. |
| The way to know life is to love many things. |
| Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. |
| I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. |
| Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. |
| There is no blue without yellow and without orange. |
| How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? |
| I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. |
| I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. |
| The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. |
| I wish they would only take me as I am. |
| I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. |
| Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. |
| When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. |
| Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. |
| The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others. |
| If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. |
| I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. |
