I am still learning. (at age 87)

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

And still I am learning.

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.