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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it.
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.
I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?