"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing."

"I want to paint humanity, humanity and nothing else."

"There are colours which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman."

"I don't want to consider it a misfortune that it's turned out this way, on the contrary, despite all the emotion I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we…"