My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

• I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
• My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
• I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
• I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
• The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
• An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
• My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.