Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.