Seek Only Light And Freedom

One Begins By Plaguing Oneself To No Purpose In Order To Be True To Nature, And One Concludes By Working Quietly From One's Own Palette Alone, And Then Nature Is The Result.

We Are Surrounded By Poetry On All Sides.

I Am Astonished At The High Prices Paid For Works By Painters Who Are Dead, Prices None Of Them Could Expect When They Were Alive. It Is A Kind Of Tulip Trade, In Which Living Painters Suffer But Do Not Profit.

Do Not Quench Your Inspiration And Your Imagination; Do Not Become The Slave Of Your Model.

The Only Thing To Do Is To Go One's Own Way, To Try One's Best, To Make The Thing Live.