I Work As Diligently On My Canvases

I Am Seeking, I Am Striving, I Am In It With All My Heart.

I Can't Work Without A Model. I Won't Say I Turn My Back On Nature Ruthlessly In Order To Turn A Study Into A Picture, Arranging The Colors, Enlarging And Simplifying; But In The Matter Of Form I Am Too Afraid Of Departing From The Possible And The True.

Painting It Was Hard Graft. There Are One And A Half Large Tubes Of White In The Ground - Yet That Ground Is Very Dark.

Art Is Jealous, And Demands Our Whole Strength ... .

I Am No Friend Of Present-day Christianity, Though Its Founder Was Sublime.