I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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.