In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
If one hasn’t a horse, one is one’s own horse.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the.
You have first to experience what you want to express.
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it – keep going, keep going come what may.
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.