A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

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.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I wish they would only take me as I am.