"I want to paint the impossible."

"I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things."

"For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly."

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent."

"I am not myself, I am my environment."