"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."
"Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me."
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way."
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."
"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."
"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."
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
"If one is the 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."
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."
"I canít work without a model. I wonít 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."
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
"Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous."
"An artist neednít 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 am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."
"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You donít always know if it is green or violet, you canít even say itís blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"
"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."
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more."