I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.