“The sunflower is mine, in a way.”

“The best way to know life is to love many things”

“I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”

“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”

“What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”

“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 are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.”