You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.