I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
The best way to know God is to love many things.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Conscience is a man's compass.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
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.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
