The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent

In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.