One must be careful not to fall back on opaque black — on deliberate wrong — and even more one has to avoid the white ... » Go

I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the ... » Go

Now to revert to the fact that I told Father it was wrong that two years ago we quarreled so violently that I was locked ... » Go

It seems to me it’s a painter’s duty to try to put an idea into his work. In this print I have tried to express what ... » Go

The work of the French naturalists — Zola, Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, de Congourt — is magnificent. Is the Bible enough for us: In these days, I ... » Go

For me, that God of the clergymen is dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me so ... » Go

I cannot live without love, without a woman. I would not value life at all if there were not something infinite, something deep, something real. Every woman ... » Go

You must not be astonished when, even at the risk of your taking me for a fanatic, I tell you that in order to love, ... » Go

I think that everything which is really good and beautiful — of inner moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works — comes ... » Go

Last winter I met a pregnant woman [Sien], deserted by the man whose child she carried. A pregnant woman who had to walk the streets ... » Go

Jesus Christ is the Master who can comfort and Strengthen a man, a laborer and working man whose life is hard — because he is ... » Go

Did I ever tell you about a picture by Boughton, “The Pilgrim’s Progress”? It is toward evening. A sandy path leads over the hills to a mountain, ... » Go

It is God who makes real men and who can enrich our lives with moments and periods of higher feeling. Has the sea made itself, has ... » Go

To express my feelings for her [Kee], I said, “She, and no other.” And her “no, never, never” (niet, nooit, nimmer) was not strong enough to make ... » Go