"I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."

"The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech."

"I am in a rage. I am in a rage against myself."

"I want to give the poor a voice through my art."

"Believe me that sometimes I laugh heartily because people suspect me of all kinds of malignity and absurdity, of which not a hair of my head is guilty — I, who am really no one but a friend of nature,…"